New approaches to the Klinefelter syndrome

Annales d'Endocrinologie

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 88-97

  Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a,b   Werler, Steffi ^a   Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Zitzmann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

47,XXY karyotype; Klinefelter

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; XIST NON-CODING RNA;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 47,XXY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TESTIS BIOPSY; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; GENOME IMPRINTING; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MOUSE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MICE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84901285279     PISSN: 00034266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ando.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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