Combinations of genetic changes in the human cAMP-responsive element modulator gene: A clue towards understanding some forms of male infertility?

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 567-574

  Vouk, K ^a   Hudler, P ^a   Strmsnik L ^a   Fink, M ^a   Majdic G ^a   Zorn, B ^b   Lalli, E ^c   Sassone Corsi, P ^c   Debeljak, N ^a   Komel, R ^a   Rozman, Damjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

CREM; Expression; Mutation detection; Non obstructive azoospermia; Regulation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA LIBRARY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATID; TESTIS;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT MODULATOR; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TESTIS;

EID: 27144434375     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gah209     Document Type: Article

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