A genetic survey of 1935 Turkish men with severe male factor infertility

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 465-474

  Kumtepe, Yakup ^a   Beyazyurek, Cagri ^b   Cinar, Cigdem ^b   Ozbey, Isa ^a   Ozkhan, Semih ^b   Cetinkaya, Kadir ^a   Karlikaya, Güvenc ^b   Karagozoglu, Hale ^b   Kahraman, Semra ^b  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction techniques; Karyotype analysis; Male factor infertility; Y chromosome microdeletions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 65249132992     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60121-6     Document Type: Article

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