Analysis of partial AZFc deletions in Malaysian infertile male subjects

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 99-107

  Almeamar, Hussein Ali ^a,b   Ramachandran, Vasudevan ^a,e   Ismail, Patimah ^a   Nadkarni, Prashan ^c   Fawzi, Nora ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BABYLON   (Iraq)

^c KL Fertility and Gynaecology Centre   (Malaysia)

^d NATIONAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Malaysia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

AZF; HRM; Male infertility; Partial deletions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR REGION DELETION; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALAYSIA; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84874301702     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2012.748851     Document Type: Article

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