Single-nucleotide polymorphisms and mutation analyses of the TNP1 and TNP2 genes of fertile and infertile human male populations

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 779-786

  Miyagawa, Yasushi ^a   Nishimura, Hiromi ^b   Tsujimura, Akira ^a   Matsuoka, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^a   Okuyama, Akihiko ^a   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^b   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genome; Male infertility; Promoter; Protamine; SNPs; Sperm; Transition nuclear protein

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TNP1 GENE; TNP2 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTAMINES;

EID: 26944433026     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.05069     Document Type: Article

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