High frequency of DAZ1/DAZ2 gene deletions in patients with severe oligozoospermia

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 286-298

  Fernandes, S ^a,b   Huellen, K ^a   Goncalves, J ^c   Dukal, H ^a   Zeisler, J ^a   Rajpert De Meyts, E ^d   Skakkebaek, N E ^d   Habermann, B ^e   Krause, W ^e   Sousa, M ^f   Barros, A ^b   Vogt, P H ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^g NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

AZFc; DAZ deletions; DAZ SNVs; Male infertility; Oligoazoospermia

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENBANK; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 18244410193     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/8.3.286     Document Type: Article

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