Genetic susceptibility to male infertility: News from genome-wide association studies

Andrology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 315-321

  Aston, K I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy number variant; Gene mutation; Gene polymorphism; Gene sequencing; Genetic disorders; Genome studies; Genome wide association study; Male infertility; Microarray; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; Y CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84899122184     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2014.00188.x     Document Type: Review

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