Methylation pattern of methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase and small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N promoters in oligoasthenospermia: A case-control study

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 225-231

  Botezatu, Anca ^a   Socolov, Razvan ^b   Socolov, Demetra ^b   Iancu, Iulia Virginia ^a   Anton, Gabriela ^a  

^a STEFAN S NICOLAU INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Romania)

^b GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

DNA hypermethylation; epigenetics; male infertility; MTHFR; quantitative methylation specific PCR; SNRPN

Indexed keywords

DNA HYPERMETHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; MALE INFERTILITY; MTHFR; QUANTITATIVE METHYLATION-SPECIFIC PCR; SNRPN;

ADULT; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; ROMANIA; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84895075919     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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