Mutation screening and association study of the TSSK4 gene in Chinese infertile men with impaired spermatogenesis

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 374-378

  Su, Dan ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Yang, Yuan ^a,b   Deng, Ying ^a,b   Ma, Yongxin ^a,b   Song, Hongxia ^a,b   Zhang, Sizhong ^a,b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Male infertility; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOINFORMATICS; CHINESE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TSSK4 GENE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 46449125063     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.107.004598     Document Type: Article

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