Detailed functional studies on androgen receptor mild mutations demonstrate their association with male infertility

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 580-588

  Zuccarello, D ^a   Ferlin, A ^a   Vinanzi, C ^a   Prana, E ^a   Garolla, A ^a   Callewaert, L ^b   Claessens, F ^b   Brinkmann, A O ^c   Foresta, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 40749093681     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.03069.x     Document Type: Article

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