Impaired spermatogenesis and gr/gr deletions related to Y chromosome haplogroups in Korean men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Choi, Jin ^a   Song, Seung Hun ^b   Bak, Chong Won ^b   Sung, Se Ra ^a   Yoon, Tae Ki ^b   Lee, Dong Ryul ^b   Shim, Sung Han ^a,b  

^a CHA Gangnam Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b CHA University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZFC GENE; AZOOSPERMIA; CDY1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAZ GENE; ETHNIC GROUP; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KOREAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENE DOSAGE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84865281580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043550     Document Type: Article

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