Genetics of male infertility

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-17

  Hotaling, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CBAVD; Germline mutation; Klinefelter syndrome; Male infertility; Y chromosome microdeletion

Indexed keywords

CBAVD; GERMLINE MUTATION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE INFERTILITY; Y CHROMOSOME MICRODELETION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA; EPIGENOMICS; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 84888305286     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: 1558318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2013.08.009     Document Type: Review

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