Mutations of the aurora kinase C gene causing macrozoospermia are the most frequent genetic cause of male infertility in Algerian men

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 68-73

  Ounis, Leyla ^a,b   Zoghmar, Abdelali ^b   Coutton, Charles ^c,d,e   Rouabah, Leila ^a   Hachemi, Maroua ^a   Martinez, Delphine ^e   Martinez, Guillaume ^c,d   Bellil, Ines ^a   Khelifi, Douadi ^a   Arnoult, Christophe ^c,d   Fauré, Julien ^c,e,f   Benbouhedja, Sebti ^b   Rouabah, Abdelkader ^a   Ray, Pierre F ^c,d,e  

^a Universite Mentouri Constantine   (Algeria)

^b Clinique Ibn Rochd Centre de Medecine de la Reproduction   (United States)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

aurora kinase C; DPY19L2; globozoospermia; infertility; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; macrozoospermia

Indexed keywords

AURORA C KINASE; AURKC PROTEIN, HUMAN; DPY19L2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALGERIAN; ARTICLE; AURKC GENE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DPY19L2 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLOBOZOOSPERMIA; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MACROZOOSPERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMIOGRAM; ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; ALGERIA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ADULT; ALGERIA; AURORA KINASE C; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERM HEAD; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84920443192     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.136441     Document Type: Article

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