Y-chromosomal microdeletions and partial deletions of the Azoospermia factor c (AZFc) region in normozoospermic, severe oligozoospermic and azoospermic men in Sri Lanka

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-44

  Fernando, L ^a,b   Gromoll, J ^a   Weerasooriya, T R ^b   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a   Simoni, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Azoospermia factor c; B2 b3; Gr gr; Male infertility; Microdeletion; Normozoospermia; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SRI LANKA;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 30444460100     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2006.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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