Androgen receptor polymorphism (CAG repeats) and androgenicity

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 356-361

  Canale, D ^a   Caglieresi, C ^a   Moschini, C ^a   Liberati, C D ^a   Macchia, E ^a   Pinchera, A ^a   Martino, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HYPOANDROGENISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROSTATE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 24144474208     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02354.x     Document Type: Article

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