Incidence of microdeletions in the AZF region of the Y chromosome in Slovak patients with azoospermia

Biomedical Papers

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-38

  Behulova, Regina ^a   Varga, Ivan ^a,b,c   Strhakova, Lubica ^d   Bozikova, Alexandra ^e   Gabrikova, Dana ^e   Boronova, Iveta ^e   Repiska, Vanda ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c St Elizabeth University College of Health and Social Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d Medirex ltd   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRE OV   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

AZF region; Azoospermia; DNA analysis; Microdeletion; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AZF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; SLOVAKIA; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HUMANS; MALE; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 79954470626     PISSN: 12138118     EISSN: 12138118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2011.006     Document Type: Article

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