Copy number variation associated with meiotic arrest in idiopathic male infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 214-219

  Eggers, Stefanie ^a   DeBoer, Kathleen D ^b   Van Den Bergen, Jocelyn ^a   Gordon, Lavinia ^a   White, Stefan J ^b   Jamsai, Duangporn ^b   McLachlan, Robert I ^c,d   Sinclair, Andrew H ^a   O'Bryan, Moira K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d MONASH IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Copy number variation; Genetics; Human

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GOLGI COMPLEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LRRC4C GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC ARREST; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYRIP GENE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOCYTE; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS;

AZOOSPERMIA; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; TESTIS;

EID: 84924370716     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.09.030     Document Type: Article

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