Analysis of partial azoospermia factor c deletion and DAZ copy number in azoospermia and severe oligozoospermia

Andrologia

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 890-894

  Alimardanian, L ^a   Saliminejad, K ^a   Razi, S ^a   Ahani, A ^a  

^a AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

AZFc region; azoospermia factor; male infertility; Y chromosome microdeletion

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR C; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DAZ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAZ GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IRANIAN (CITIZEN); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POPULATION GENETICS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC DISEASES, Y-LINKED; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84954414538     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12527     Document Type: Article

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