New genetic markers for male infertility

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 193-198

  Ferlin, Alberto ^a   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

epigenetics; genetics; male infertility; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); FOLLITROPIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; GENETIC MARKER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANEUPLOIDY; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; AUTOSOME; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHARMACOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TELOMERE; XY GONADAL DYSGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME; ADULT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENETICS; INFERTILITY, MALE;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84900437237     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000061     Document Type: Review

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