Role of genetics in azoospermia

Urology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 598-601

  Lee, Joo Yeon ^a   Dada, Rima ^b,c   Sabanegh, Edmund ^a   Carpi, Angelo ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AZF GENE; AZOOSPERMIA; CFTR GENE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DAX1 GENE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MTHFR GENE; NONOBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; OBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOGENESIS; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SRY GENE; X CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE;

EID: 79952363221     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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