Common AZFc structure may possess the optimal spermatogenesis efficiency relative to the rearranged structures mediated by non-allele homologous recombination

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yang, Bo ^a   Ma, Yong Yi ^a   Liu, Yun Qiang ^a   Li, Lei ^a   Yang, Dong ^b   Tu, Wen Ling ^a   Shen, Ying ^a   Dong, Qiang ^a   Yang, Yuan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDY1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DAZ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; HAPLOTYPES; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ODDS RATIO; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84930197463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10551     Document Type: Article

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