Study of azoospermia factor-a deletion caused by homologous recombination between the human endogenous retroviral elements and population-specific alleles in Japanese infertile males

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1177-1182

  Choi, Jin ^a   Koh, Eitetsu ^a   Matsui, Fotoshi ^c   Sugimoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Suzuki, Hiromi ^a   Maeda, Yuji ^a   Yoshida, Atsumi ^b   Namiki, Mikio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Reproduction Center   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

AZF; HERV; homologous recombination; male infertility; TESE; Y haplogroup

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE DELETION; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE DELETION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; JAPAN; MALE; RETROELEMENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 43449090090     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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