Y-chromosome haplogroups and susceptibility to azoospermia factor c microdeletion in an Italian population

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 205-208

  Arredi, Barbara ^a   Ferlin, Alberto ^a   Speltra, Elena ^a   Bedin, Chiara ^a   Zuccarello, Daniela ^a   Ganz, Francesco ^a   Marchina, Eleonora ^b   Stuppia, Liborio ^c   Krausz, Csilla ^d   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR C GENE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 34147168217     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2006.046433     Document Type: Article

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