Male fecundity and its implications for health and disease across the lifespan

Human Reproduction

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1351-1352

  Buck Louis, Germaine M ^a  

^a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; MALE;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE;

EID: 84902664194     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deu108     Document Type: Editorial

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