Association of spermatogenic failure with the b2/b3 partial azfc deletion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Eloualid, Abdelmajid ^a,d   Rhaissi, Houria ^d   Reguig, Ahmed ^a   Bounaceur, Safaa ^a   houate, Brahim ^a   Abidi, Omar ^a   Charif, Majida ^a   Louanjli, Noureddine ^b   Chadli, Elbakkay ^a   Barakat, Abdelhamid ^a   Bashamboo, Anu ^c   McElreavey, Ken ^c   Rouba, Hassan ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^b LABOMAC Laboratory   (Morocco)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES BEN M SIK   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MASS SCREENING; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84859721880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034902     Document Type: Article

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