Prevalence of azoospermia factor (AZF) deletions in idiopathic infertile males in North-East India

International Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-104

  Mahanta, R ^a   Gogoi, A ^a   Roy, S ^a   Bhattacharyya, I K ^a   Sharma, P ^b  

^a Wildlife Biology and Conservation Group Department of Environmental Biology and Wildlife Sciences   (India)

^b Pratiksha Hospitals   (India)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Male infertility; Oligozoospermia; Y chromosome microdeletion

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR A GENE; AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR B GENE; AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR C GENE; AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR GENE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING MOTIF Y CHROMOSOME GENE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; TESTIS SPECIFIC BASIC PROTEIN Y 2 GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84856607308     PISSN: 09723757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09723757.2011.11886130     Document Type: Article

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