Fertility, sex determination, and the X chromosome

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 224-228

  Vaiman, D ^a,b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

BMP15 GENE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC MODEL; GERM CELL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 45,X; MALE FERTILITY; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NR0B1 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SHEEP; SPERMATOGENESIS; TURNER SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0344099497     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071597     Document Type: Review

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