Susceptibility of gr/gr rearrangements to azoospermia or oligozoospermia is dependent on DAZ and CDY1 gene copy deletions

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1333-1341

  Sen, S ^a   Ambulkar, P ^c   Hinduja, I ^b   Zaveri, K ^b   Gokral, J ^a   Pal, A ^c   Modi, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH   (India)

^b P D HINDUJA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

CDY1; DAZ; gr gr deletions; ICSI; Male infertility; Sperm concentration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR LOCI; CHROMODOMAIN PROTEIN ON Y 1 GENE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETED IN AZOOSPERMIA GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FOLLOW UP; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

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

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC DISEASES, Y-LINKED; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROGNOSIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84943361194     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0520-4     Document Type: Article

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