Low-frequency protamine 1 gene transversions c.102G→T and c. - 107G→C do not correlate with male infertility

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 255-256

  Kichine, E ^a   Msaidie, S ^a,b   Bokilo, A D ^b   Ducourneau, A ^a,b   Navarro, A ^a   Levy, N ^a,c   Terriou, P ^d   Collignon, P ^e   Boetsch, G ^b   Chiaroni, J ^f   Mitchell, M J ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Institut de Medecine de la Reproduction   (France)

^e Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Toulon La Seyne sur Mer   (France)

^f ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE;

DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTAMINE 1 GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTAMINES;

EID: 42049120030     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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