Molecular study on Y chromosome microdeletions in Egyptian males with idiopathic infertility

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-57

  El Awady, Mostafa K ^a   El Shater, Sohair F ^a   Ragaa, Ehab ^a   Atef, Khaled ^a   Shaheen, Ibrahim M ^b   Megiud, Nagwa A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

AZF; Azoospermia; Male infertility; Multiplex polymerase chain reaction; Y microdeletions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME YQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGYPT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMATURITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SHORT STATURE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EGYPT; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELLS; SYNDROME; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 1842430914     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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