Familial clustering of impaired spermatogenesis: No evidence for a common genetic inheritance pattern

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-76

  Gianotten, Judith ^a   Westerveld, G Henrike ^a   Leschot, Nico J ^a   Tanck, Michael W T ^a   Lilford, Richard J ^b   Lombardi, M Paola ^a   Van Der Veen, Fulco ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Familial clustering; Impaired spermatogenesis; Male subfertility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC MODEL; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RECORD; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREVALENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 0346055100     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh008     Document Type: Article

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