Screening for the microdeletions of azoospermia factor on the Y chromosome in male infertile patients from Guangzhou

Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 564-566

  Liu, Ya Feng ^a   Ou, Jian Ping ^a   Zhou, Can Quan ^a   Wang, Qiong ^a   Wang, Zi Lian ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Azoospermia factor; Male infertility; Microdeletion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS;

EID: 35349016424     PISSN: 10039406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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