The genetics of male fertility-from basic science to clinical evaluation

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1075-1084

  Pastuszak, Alexander W ^a   Lamb, Dolores J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Array comparative genomic hybridization; Exome sequencing; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Karyotype; Sex chromosome; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN SYNDROME; EXOME; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPING; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATERNITY TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FERTILITY; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PATERNITY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84874411690     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: 19394640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.112.017103     Document Type: Article

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