A new AURKC mutation causing macrozoospermia: Implications for human spermatogenesis and clinical diagnosis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 762-768

  Ben khelifa, Mariem ^a,b,c   Zouari, Raoudha ^d   Harbuz, Radu ^a,b   Halouani, Lazhar ^d   Arnoult, Christophe ^a   Lunardi, Joël ^b,e   Ray, Pierre F ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^d CPSR les Jasmins   (Tunisia)

^e GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Gene mutations; Genetic diagnosis; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

AURORA C KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MACROZOOSPORE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIBLINGS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TUNISIA;

EID: 81255147826     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gar050     Document Type: Article

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