AZFb microdeletions and oligozoospermia - Which mechanisms?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 858-863

  Soares, Ana Rita ^a   Costa, Paula ^a   Silva, Joaquina ^b   Sousa, Mário ^b   Barros, Alberto ^a,b   Fernandes, Susana ^a  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

AZFb deletions; AZFb+c deletions; azoospermia; DAZ; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR B; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA EXTRACTION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORCHITIS; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME BREAKPOINTS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FERTILITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859160735     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.01.099     Document Type: Article

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