Y chromosome b2/b3 deletions and male infertility: A comprehensive meta-analysis, trial sequential analysis and systematic review

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 768, Issue , 2016, Pages 78-90

  Bansal, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Gupta, Gopal ^a   Rajender, Singh ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

b2 b3 deletion; Male infertility; Spermatogenic failure; Y partial deletion

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; AZOOSPERMIA; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DRAVIDIAN PEOPLE; EAST ASIAN; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN; FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; META ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRIAL SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME B2; Y CHROMOSOME B3; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PUBLISHING; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION BIAS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84965002782     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: 13882139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2016.04.007     Document Type: Review

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