Association of progesterone receptor gene polymorphism with male infertility and clinical outcome of ICSI

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1133-1139

  Sen, Sanjukta ^a   Dixit, Abhijit ^a   Thakur, Chitra ^b   Gokral, Jyotsna ^a   Hinduja, Indira ^c   Zaveri, Kusum ^c   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^d   Modi, Deepak ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH   (India)

^b B J WADIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (India)

^c Inkus IVF Centre   (India)

^d CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; ICSI; Male infertility; Polymorphism; Progesterone receptor; PROGINS; Sperm counts

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NORMOZOOSPERMIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84886389058     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-013-0074-2     Document Type: Article

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