Molecular analysis of defects in the CFTR gene and AZF locus of the Y chromosome in male infertility

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 120-127

  Sobczyńska Tomaszewska, Agnieszka ^a   Ba̧k, Daniel ^b   Wolski, Jan Karol ^b   Bablok, Leszek ^b   Nawara, Magdalena ^b   Mazurczak, Tadeusz ^b   Bal, Jerzy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; Infertility; Male; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR; GENE PRODUCT; GENOMIC DNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOZOOSPERMIA; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MUTATION RATE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33244480364     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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