Pathogenic variants screening in five non-obstructive azoospermiaassociated genes

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 178-183

  Lu, Chuncheng ^a,b   Xu, Miaofei ^a,b   Wang, Rong ^a   Qin, Yufeng ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^a,b   Wu, Wei ^a,b   Song, Ling ^a,b   Wang, Shoulin ^a,b   Shen, Hongbing ^a,b   Sha, Jiahao ^a   Miao, Dengshun ^a   Hu, Zhibin ^a,b   Xia, Yankai ^a,b   Wang, Xinru ^a,b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanjing Medical University   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic variants; Non obstructive azoospermia; Spermatogenic impairment

Indexed keywords

PEROXISOME BIOGENESIS FACTOR 10; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE 6; SIGNAL REGULATORY PROTEIN ALPHA 1; SIGNAL REGULATORY PROTEIN BETA 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICATION STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GENETIC VARIANTS; NON-OBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; SPERMATOGENIC IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RISK; SOXD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84892532627     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gat071     Document Type: Article

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