CREM Variants rs4934540 and rs2295415 conferred susceptibility to nonobstructive azoospermia risk in the Chinese population

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  He, Xiao Jin ^a,b   Song, Bing ^a,b   Du, Wei Dong ^a   Cao, Yun Xia ^a,b   Zhang, Yan ^a   Ruan, Jian ^c   Tian, Hui ^d   Zhou, Fu Sheng ^a   Zuo, Xian Bo ^a   Wu, Huan ^a,b   Zha, Xing ^a,b   Xie, Xu Shi ^a   Wei, Zhao Lian ^a,b   Zhou, Ping ^a,b  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Anhui Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Biopreservation and Artificial Organs   (China)

^c Yijishan Hospital of Wannan Medical University   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Cyclic AMP responsive element modulator (CREM); Male infertility; Nonobstructive azoospermia; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT MODULATOR; MESSENGER RNA; CREM PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BODY MASS; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS SIZE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT MODULATOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938946826     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.120527     Document Type: Article

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