Genetic screening for infertility: When should it be done?

Middle East Fertility Society Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-145

  Kara, Elda ^a   Simoni, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Female infertility; Gene; Hypogonadism; Karyotype; Male infertility; Oligozoospermia; PCOS; POF; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NOBOX; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGENESIS; ANOSMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONGENITAL BILATERAL ABSENCE OF THE VAS DEFERENS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; IDIOPATHIC INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KARYOTYPE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE INFERTILITY; NOTE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 78049399255     PISSN: 11105690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mefs.2010.06.002     Document Type: Note

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