Association of the IL1RN Gene VNTR Polymorphism with Human Male Infertility

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Jaiswal, Deepika ^a   Trivedi, Sameer ^b   Singh, Rajendra ^c   Dada, Rima ^d   Singh, Kiran ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IL1RN GENE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PROTEIN; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84871324971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051899     Document Type: Article

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