Genome-wide loci linked to non-obstructive azoospermia susceptibility may be independent of reduced sperm production in males with normozoospermia

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Tu, Wenling ^a   Liu, Yunqiang ^a   Shen, Ying ^a   Yan, Yuanlong ^a   Wang, Xianding ^a   Yang, Dong ^b   Li, Lei ^c   Ma, Yongxin ^a   Tao, Dachang ^a   Zhang, Sizhong ^a   Yang, Yuan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHENGDU WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genome wide association study; Male infertility; Non obstructive azoospermia; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Sperm; Sperm production; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX5;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HAN CHINESE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEX10 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRMT6 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; ALLELE; CHINA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE INFERTILITY;

ALLELES; AZOOSPERMIA; CHINA; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84929577660     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.125237     Document Type: Article

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