Association between androgen receptor gene CAG trinucleotide repeat length and testicular histology in older men

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 873-877

  Dakouane Giudicelli, Mbarka ^a,c   Legrand, Beatrice ^b   Bergere, Marianne ^a,d   Giudicelli, Yves ^c   Cussenot, Olivier ^b   Selva, Jacqueline ^a,d  

^a Service Histologie Embryologie Biologie de la Reproduction Cytogénétique   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche pour les Pathologies Prostatiques   (France)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; CAG repeats; elderly men; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CYSTEINYLALANYLGLYCINE; DNA FRAGMENT; POLYGLUTAMINE; TRINUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOANALYZER; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FLUORESCENCE HISTOCHEMISTRY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; TESTIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICS; TESTIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 33749244767     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.03.035     Document Type: Article

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