AZFc partial deletions in Chilean men with severe spermatogenic failure

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1318-1326

  Lardone, María C ^a   Parodi, Daniela A ^a   Ebensperger, Mauricio ^b   Peñaloza, Paulina ^b   Cornejo, Valeria ^b   Valdevenito, Raúl ^c   Pommer, Ricardo ^a   Castro, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b HOSPITAL SAN BORJA ARRIARÁN   (Chile)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

AZFc partial deletion; DAZ gene; male infertility; spermatogenic impairment; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ADULT; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHILE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY;

CHILE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 34548076827     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.038     Document Type: Article

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