Genetic considerations regarding azoospermic and severely oligozoospermic men

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Quality and Safety

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 201-208

  Repping, S ^a   de Vries, J ^b   van der Veen, F ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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