Variants of the EPPIN gene affect the risk of idiopathic male infertility in the Han-Chinese population

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1657-1665

  Ding, Xinliang ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b   Fei, Juan ^a   Bian, Zenghui ^c   Li, Yingchun ^a   Xia, Yankai ^a   Lu, Chuncheng ^a   Song, Lin ^a   Wang, Shoulin ^a   Wang, Xinru ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Qixia Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

EPPIN; genetic variants; idiopathic male infertility; semen parameters

Indexed keywords

EPPIN ENZYME; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 77955911193     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq119     Document Type: Article

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