Identification of potentially damaging amino acid substitutions leading to human male infertility

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 319-326

  Kuzmin, Anastasia ^a   Jarvi, Keith ^b   Lo, Kirk ^b   Spencer, Leia ^b   Chow, Gary Y C ^a   Macleod, Graham ^a   Wang, Qianwei ^a   Varmuza, Susannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Murray Koffler Urologic Wellness Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetics; Male infertility; SBF1; SNP discovery; Testis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; AZOOSPERMIA; GENE; LINK2 GENE; LIPE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SBF1 GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TBPL1 GENE;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AZOOSPERMIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIM KINASES; MALE; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEROL ESTERASE; TATA BOX BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 68049133284     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.076000     Document Type: Article

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