Cytogenetic and molecular analysis of the Y chromosome: Absence of a significant relationship between CAG repeat length in exon 1 of the androgen receptor gene and infertility in Indian men

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 286-295

  Dhillon, Varinderpal S ^a,b   Husain, Syed A ^a  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Non obstructive azoospermia; Obstructive azoospermia; Severe oligospermia; Yq microdeletions and (CAG)n in AR gene

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY;

ADENINE; ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CYTOSINE; EXONS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENOTYPE; GUANINE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; TESTOSTERONE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0141638681     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.2003.00425.x     Document Type: Article

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