TSPY and male fertility

Genes

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 308-316

  Krausz, Csilla ^a   Giachini, Claudia ^a   Forti, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genetics; Male infertility; Spermatogenesis; TSPY; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GONADOBLASTOMA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS SPECIFIC PROTEIN Y 1 GENE; TUMOR GENE;

EID: 79952096281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes1020308     Document Type: Review

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