Sons conceived by assisted reproduction techniques inherit deletions in the azoospermia factor (AZF) region of the Y chromosome and the DAZ gene copy number

Human Reproduction

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1669-1678

  Mau Kai, C ^a   Juul, A ^a   McElreavey, K ^b   Ottesen, A M ^a   Garn, I D ^a   Main, K M ^a   Loft, A ^a   Jorgensen N ^a   Skakkebaek N E ^a   Andersen, A Nyboe ^a   Rajpert De Meyts, E ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

ART; AZFc; b2 b3 deletion; gr gr deletion; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DAZ; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MAPPING; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 44949149115     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/den124     Document Type: Article

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