Analysis of the meiotic recombination gene REC8 for sequence variations in a population with severe male factor infertility

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-165

  Griffin, Jeanine ^a   Emery, Benjamin R ^a   Christensen, Greg L ^a   Carrell, Douglas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

azoospermia; gene polymorphism; infertility; meiosis; oligozoospermia; REC8; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; REC8 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; EXON; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MEIOSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 51449097713     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19396360802061317     Document Type: Article

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