Clinical data for 185 infertile Iranian men with Y-chromosome microdeletion

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 847-853

  Totonchi, Mehdi ^a   Mohseni Meybodi, Anahita ^a   Borjian Boroujeni, Parnaz ^a   Sedighi Gilani, Mohammad ^a   Almadani, Navid ^a   Gourabi, Hamid ^a  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

Author keywords

ART; AZF; Male infertility; Y chromosome microdeletion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; HUMAN; IRAN; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE;

ABNORMAL KARYOTYPE; ADULT; AGED; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; IRAN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SPERM COUNT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867084698     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-012-9798-7     Document Type: Article

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