The genetics of male infertility

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-136

  Walsh, Thomas J ^a   Pera, Renee Reijo ^b   Turek, Paul J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Turek Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Karyotype; Male infertility; Oligospermia; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EJACULATION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FAMILY HISTORY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KENNEDY DISEASE; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PACHYTENE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR GENE; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; SRY GENE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VAS DEFERENS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 63449101212     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1202301     Document Type: Article

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