Absence of sperm RNA elements correlates with idiopathic male infertility

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 295, 2015, Pages

  Jodar, Meritxell ^a   Sendler, Edward ^a   Moskovtsev, Sergey I ^b,c   Librach, Clifford L ^b,c,d   Goodrich, Robert ^a   Swanson, Sonja ^b   Hauser, Russ ^e,f   Diamond, Michael P ^g   Krawetz, Stephen A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CReATe Fertility Centre   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; SPERM RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RNA SEQUENCE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPERM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RNA; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84937138994     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aab1287     Document Type: Article

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