Assessment of correlation between androgen receptor cag repeat length and infertility in infertile men living in khuzestan, iran

International Journal of Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 189-196

  Khatami, Saeid Reza ^a   Galehdari, Hamid ^a   Rasekh, Abdorrahman ^a   Mombeini, Hayat ^b   Konar, Elham ^a  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^b AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Androgen Receptor; CAG Repeats; Male Infertility; Y Chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA POLYMERASE; GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84938076614     PISSN: 2008076X     EISSN: 20080778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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