Associations of variants in MTHFR and MTRR genes with male infertility in the Jordanian population

Gene

Volumn 536, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-44

  Mfady, Doaa S ^a   Sadiq, May F ^a   Khabour, Omar F ^b   Fararjeh, AbdulFattah S ^b   Abu Awad, Aymen ^c   Khader, Yousef ^b  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^c Princess Iman Research and Laboratory Sciences Center   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Infertility; Jordan; Male; MTHFR; MTRR; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE SYNTHASE REDUCTASE; METHYLENE TETRAHYDROFOLATEREDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPERM;

EID: 84891828957     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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