Reevaluation of azoospermic factor c microdeletions using sequence-tagged site markers with confirmed physical positions from the GenBank database

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 965-971

  Fukushima, Masato ^a   Koh, Eitetsu ^a   Choi, Jin ^a   Maeda, Yuji ^a   Namiki, Mikio ^a   Yoshida, Atsumi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Reproduction Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

AZF; Azoospermia; GenBank; Genetic male infertility; Microdeletion; Oligospermia; Palindrome; STS genetic markers; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DATA BASE; DNA ISOLATION; GENBANK; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES;

EID: 33645409448     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.09.060     Document Type: Article

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