Y microdeletions in the Istria county, Croatia

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-216

  Medica, I ^a,b   Gligorievska, N ^a   Prenc, M ^c   Peterlin, Borut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Outpatient Paediatric Clinic   (Croatia)

^c GENERAL HOSPITAL PULA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

AZF region; Male infertility; Microdeletion; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMIOGRAM; TESTIS SIZE;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CROATIA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 22944456873     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2005.00028.x     Document Type: Article

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