Unravelling the genetics of spermatogenic failure

Reproduction

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-307

  Visser, Liesbeth ^a   Repping, Sjoerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GONADOTROPIN;

BIOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 75149126048     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0229     Document Type: Review

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