BCL2 Ala43Thr is a functional variant associated with protection against azoospermia in a Han-Chinese population

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 656-662

  Ma, Jun ^a   Lu, Hui Yuan ^a   Xia, Yan Kai ^a   Dong, Hui Bin ^a   Gu, Ai Hua ^a   Li, Zi Yin ^a   Li, Zhong ^a   Chen, Ai Min ^b   Wang, Xin Ru ^a   Wang, Shou Lin ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Azoospermia; BCL2; BCL2 gene; Male reproductive tract; SNPs; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOINFORMATICS; CHINESE; CODING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL SURVIVAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; DNA; GENES, BCL-2; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; PACLITAXEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957562653     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.082339     Document Type: Article

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