Cytogenetic study of 435 subfertile men: Incidence and clinical features

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-20

  Bertini, Veronica ^a   Simi, Paolo ^a   Valette, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberrations; Cytogenetics; Infertility, male

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CHROMOSOME Q BAND; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; KARYOTYPE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SUBFERTILITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CYTOGENETICS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 31644435080     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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