Copy number variation and microdeletions of the Y chromosome linked genes and loci across different categories of Indian infertile males

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kumari, Anju ^a   Yadav, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Misro, Man Mohan ^b   Ahmad, Jamal ^c   Ali, Sher ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE   (India)

^c ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SRY PROTEIN, HUMAN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR;

AZOOSPERMIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERPHASE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; METAPHASE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOZOON; Y CHROMOSOME;

AZOOSPERMIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDIA; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERPHASE; MALE; METAPHASE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84949485199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17780     Document Type: Article

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