Androgen receptor gene CAG and GGC repeat lengths in idiopathic male infertility

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 417-421

  Ferlin, A ^a   Bartoloni, L ^a   Rizzo, G ^a   Roverato, A ^b   Garolla, A ^a   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; CAG; GGC; Male infertility; Triplets

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CYTOSINE; GLYCINE; GUANINE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXON; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RISK FACTORS; SPERMATOZOA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 2642570003     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gah054     Document Type: Article

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