Acrocentric bivalents positioned preferentially nearby to the XY pair in metaphase i human spermatocytes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1241-1245

  Sarrate, Zaida ^a   Blanco, Joan ^a   Vidal, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acrocentric chromosomes; chromosome territories; human spermatocytes; metaphase I; XY bivalent

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC BIVALENT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; ASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CHROMOSOME BIVALENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; TESTIS;

BIOPSY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METAPHASE; PACHYTENE STAGE; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS;

EID: 84867746935     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.07.1110     Document Type: Article

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