Length of androgen receptor - CAG repeats in fertile and infertile Egyptian men

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 416-425

  Badran, Wael A ^a   Fahmy, Ibrahim ^a,b   Abdel Megid, Wael M ^c   Elder, Kay ^d   Mansour, Ragaa ^a   Kent First, Marijo ^c,e  

^a EGYPTIAN IVF ET CENTER   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Bourn Hall Clinic ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Male infertility; Spermatogenesis; Trinucleotide repeat

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMINE;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNICITY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; EGYPT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 68549135173     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.108.005843     Document Type: Article

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