Genetics of female infertility due to anomalies of the ovary and mullerian ducts

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1154, Issue , 2014, Pages 39-73

  Simpson, Joe Leigh ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Array CGH; Candidate genes; Genetic heterogeneity; Incomplete mullerian fusion; Mullerian aplasia; Mutation; Premature ovarian failure; Single genes; X chromosome deletions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; HAND FOOT GENITAL SYNDROME; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCOMPLETE MULLERIAN FUSION; MCKUSICK KAUFMAN SYNDROME; MULLERIAN APLASIA; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SEX CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; TRANSVERSE VAGINAL SEPTA; UTERUS MALFORMATION; VAGINA ATRESIA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUELLERIAN DUCT; MUTATION; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULLERIAN DUCTS; MUTATION; OVARY; PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84921437477     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0659-8_3     Document Type: Article

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