A constitutional complex chromosome rearrangement involving meiotic arrest in an azoospermic male: Case report

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2784-2790

  Coco, R ^a   Rahn, M I ^b   Garcia Estanga P ^a   Antonioli, G ^a   Solari, A J ^b  

^a Instituto de Medicina Reproductiva   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Complex chromosome rearrangement; FISH; Human meiosis; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 15; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION Y; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EUCHROMATIN; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MARKER CHROMOSOME; MEIOSIS; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS BIOPSY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 11144255170     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh506     Document Type: Article

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