Putative biological functions of the DAZ family

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 125-129

  Yen, Pauline H ^a,b  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BOULE; DAZ; DAZL; Germ cell development; Male infertility; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; DELETED IN AZOOSPERMIA GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; MEIOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 2642575091     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2004.00469.x     Document Type: Review

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