Tissue-specific differentially methylated regions of the human VASA gene are potentially associated with maturation arrest phenotype in the testis

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 450-456

  Sugimoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Koh, Eitetsu ^a   Sin, Ho Su ^a   Maeda, Yuji ^a   Narimoto, Kazutaka ^a   Izumi, Koji ^a   Kobori, Yoshitomo ^a   Kitamura, Eiko ^b   Nagase, Hiroki ^b   Yoshida, Atsumi ^c   Namiki, Mikio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Reproduction Center Kiba Park Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

CpG island; DDX4; MALDI TOF MS; Male infertility; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; FOLLITROPIN; GENOMIC DNA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA METHYLATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATURATION; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED REGION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VASA GENE;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CPG ISLANDS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TESTIS;

EID: 69349086991     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2009.59     Document Type: Article

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