A rare Y chromosome constitutional rearrangement: A partial AZFb deletion and duplication within chromosome Yp in an infertile man with severe oligoasthenoteratozoospermia

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 34, Issue 5 PART 1, 2011, Pages 461-469

  Shi, Y C ^a   Cui, Y X ^a   Zhou, Y C ^a   Wei, L ^a   Jiang, H T ^a   Xia, X Y ^a   Lu, H Y ^a   Wang, H Y ^a   Shang, X J ^a   Zhu, W M ^a   Li, X J ^a   Huang, Y F ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Azoospermia factor b; Deletion; Duplication; Infertile; Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR B; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME YP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSPERMIA;

EID: 80053302945     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: 13652605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2010.01098.x     Document Type: Article

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