Genes and Male Infertility: What Can Go Wrong?

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 485-493

  Maduro, Maria Rosa ^a   Lo, Kirk C ^a   Chuang, Weber W ^a   Lamb, Dolores J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 1642461584     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2003.tb02697.x     Document Type: Review

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