Methylation status of the SNRPN and HUMARA genes in testicular biopsy samples

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 805-809

  Dasoula, Aggeliki ^a   Georgiou, Ioannis ^a   Kontogianni, Elena ^a   Sofikitis, Nikos ^b   Syrrou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b IVF   (Greece)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; HUMARA; infertility; methylation; SNRPN

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BISULFITE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ASSOCIATED POLYPEPTIDE N; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCUS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS BIOPSY;

ADULT; AUTOANTIGENS; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; TESTIS;

EID: 34047246649     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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