Organizational and functional status of the Y-linked genes and loci in the infertile patients having normal spermiogram

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kumari, Anju ^a   Yadav, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Ali, Sher ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BPY2 GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DAZ GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; OLIGOSPERMIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SPERMIOGRAM; SRY GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, Y-LINKED; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84864205947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041488     Document Type: Article

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