The contribution of genetic variations of aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway genes to male factor infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 854-859

  Merisalu, Ave ^a   Punab, Margus ^b   Altmäe, Signe ^a   Haller, Kadri ^a   Tiido, Tarmo ^c   Peters, Maire ^a   Salumets, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TARTU UNIVERSITY CLINICS   (Estonia)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AHR pathway; male infertility; single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR REPRESSOR PROTEIN; DNA; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1BETA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ESTONIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATOR; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 34848856384     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.041     Document Type: Article

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