The RsaI polymorphism in the estrogen receptor-β gene is associated with male infertility

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5343-5348

  Aschim, Elin L ^a,b   Giwercman, Aleksander ^d   Ståhl, Olof ^d   Eberhard, Jakob ^d   Cwikiel, Magdalena ^d   Nordenskjöld, Agneta ^e   Haugen, Trine B ^a,b   Grotmol, Tom ^c   Giwercman, Yvonne L ^d  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^c CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DEL CASTILLO SYNDROME; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOSPADIAS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DISEASE; WILD TYPE;

ADULT; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CRYPTORCHIDISM; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GENOTYPE; GERMINOMA; GUANINE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 24344466227     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-0263     Document Type: Article

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