A clinical appraisal of the genetic basis in unexplained male infertility

Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 176-182

  Esteves, Sandro C ^a  

^a Referral Center for Male Reproduction   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; epigenetics; genetics; genome; male infertility; unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DEOXYCYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ANEUPLOIDY; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN SYNDROME; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; KARYOTYPING; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; TRISOMY 21; UNEXPLAINED MALE INFERTILITY; Y CHROMOSOME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84890074366     PISSN: 09741208     EISSN: 19984766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-1208.121419     Document Type: Review

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