Genetic male infertility and mutation of CATSPER ion channels

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1178-1184

  Hildebrand, Michael S ^a,b   Avenarius, Matthew R ^c   Fellous, Marc ^d   Zhang, Yuzhou ^a,b   Meyer, Nicole C ^a,b   Auer, Jana ^d,e   Serres, Catherine ^d,e   Kahrizi, Kimia ^f   Najmabadi, Hossein ^f   Beckmann, Jacques S ^g   Smith, Richard J H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CatSper; contraception; male infertility; sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CATION CHANNEL; CATION CHANNEL OF SPERM; CATION CHANNEL OF SPERM 1; CATION CHANNEL OF SPERM 2; CATION CHANNEL OF SPERM 3; H 300 ANTIBODY; HC 056456; ION TRANSPORT AFFECTING AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTRACEPTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NONSYNDROMIC MALE INFERTILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SYNDROMIC MALE INFERTILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77958493019     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2010.108     Document Type: Review

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