Truncating mutations in TAF4B and ZMYND15 causing recessive azoospermia

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 239-244

  Ayhan, Özgecan ^a   Balkan, Mahmut ^b   Guven, Ayse ^a   Hazan, Renin ^a   Atar, Murat ^b   Tok, Atalay ^a   Tolun, Aslihan ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TAF4B PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZMYND15 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; EXOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONSENSE MUTATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

AZOOSPERMIA; MALE INFERTILITY; SPAG7; TAF4B; ZMYND15;

ANIMALS; AZOOSPERMIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID;

EID: 84896390370     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2013-102102     Document Type: Article

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