The CFTR Met 470 allele is associated with lower birth rates in fertile men from a population isolate

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Kosova, Gülüm ^a   Pickrell, Joseph K ^a   Kelley, Joanna L ^a   McArdle, Patrick F ^b   Shuldiner, Alan R ^b,c   Abney, Mark ^a   Ober, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; VALINE; CFTR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BILATERAL ABSENCE OF THE VAS DEFERENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE;

ALLELES; BIRTH RATE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 77954168826     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000974     Document Type: Article

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