A single nucleotide polymorphism within the novel sex-linked testis-specific retrotransposed PGAM4 gene influences human male fertility

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Okuda, Hidenobu ^a   Tsujimura, Akira ^a   Irie, Shinji ^b   Yamamoto, Keisuke ^a   Fukuhara, Shinichiro ^a   Matsuoka, Yasuhiro ^a   Takao, Tetsuya ^a   Miyagawa, Yasushi ^a   Nonomura, Norio ^a   Wada, Morimasa ^c   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOPPAN PRINTING CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PGAM1 GENE; PGAM4 GENE; PREVALENCE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; WESTERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME; ACROSOME; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; PREGNANCY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ANIMALIA;

ACROSOME; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, X-LINKED; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATIDS; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84860743286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035195     Document Type: Article

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