Prevalence of Y chromosome microdeletions in idiopathic azoospermia cases in central Indian men

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Ambulkar, Prafulla ^a   Chuadhary, Ajay ^a   Waghmare, Jwalant ^a   Tarnekar, Aaditya ^a   Pal, Asoke ^a  

^a MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

AZF; Infertility; Y STS markers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIA; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME MICRODELETION;

EID: 84940706248     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/15249.6515     Document Type: Article

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