Mutations in the testis-specific NALP14 gene in men suffering from spermatogenic failure

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3178-3184

  Westerveld, G H ^a   Korver, C M ^a   van Pelt, A M M ^b   Leschot, N J ^a   van der Veen, F ^a   Repping, S ^a   Lombardi, M P ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromosomal region 11p15; Genetics; Male infertility; NALP14; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; FOLLITROPIN; GUANINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN NALP14; TESTOSTERONE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME 11P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME IMPRINTING; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PROGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STOP CODON; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33751361980     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del293     Document Type: Article

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