Y chromosome gr/gr subdeletion is associated with lower semen quality in young men from the general Japanese population but not in fertile Japanese men

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Sato, Youichi ^a   Iwamoto, Teruaki ^b,c   Shinka, Toshikatsu ^a   Nozawa, Shiari ^c   Yoshiike, Miki ^c   Koh, Eitetsue ^d   Kanaya, Jiro ^d   Namiki, Mikio ^d   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^e   Tsujimura, Akira ^f   Komatsu, Kiyoshi ^g   Itoh, Naoki ^h   Eguchi, Jiro ⁱ   Yamauchi, Aiko ^a   Nakahori, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b International University of Health and Welfare   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Harasanshinkai Hospital   (Japan)

^h SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertility; Genetics; gr gr subdeletion; Japanese men; Male infertility; Semen quality; Sperm; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MASTURBATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; Y CHROMOSOME; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME DELETION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MALE INFERTILITY; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SPERMATOZOON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903756731     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.118810     Document Type: Article

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