Structure and function of AZFa locus in human spermatogenesis

The Y Chromosome and Male Germ Cell Biology in Health and Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 91-126

  Vogt, Peter H ^a   Ditton, Hans Juergen ^a   Kamp, Christine ^a   Zimmer, Jutta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AZFa locus; Dysgenetic gonads; Germ line stem cells; Gonadoblastoma; Human spermatogoniogenesis; Sertoli cell only syndrome; X Y homologous genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967425086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812770431_0005     Document Type: Chapter

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