Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of protamine genes in infertile men

International Journal of Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-18

  Salamian, Ahamad ^a   Ghaedi, Kamran ^b,c   Razavi, Shahnaz ^d   Tavalaee, Mahmud ^a   Tanhaei, Somayeh ^c   Tavalaee, Marzyeh ^c   Salahshouri, Iman ^c   Gourabi, Hamid ^c   Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein ^c,e  

^a IMAM HOSSEIN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^c ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^d ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e ISFAHAN FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY CENTER   (Iran)

Author keywords

Infertility; Mutation; Protamine; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTIDINE; GUANINE; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE TYPE 1; PROTAMINE TYPE 2; SERINE; THYMIDINE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OLIGOSPERMIA; OPEN READING FRAME; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

EID: 67649534575     PISSN: 2008076X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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