Genetic disorders related to male factor infertility and their adverse consequences

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-115

  Harnisch, Brooke ^a   Oates, Robert ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

azoospermia; congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens; globozoospermia; male infertility; Y chromosome microdeletions

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS KARYOTYPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE INFERTILITY; PROGENY; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOA; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 84860310535     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1307418     Document Type: Article

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