Investigation of sperm telomere length as a potential marker of paternal genome integrity and semen quality

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 404-411

  Cariati, Federica ^a,b   Jaroudi, Souraya ^a   Alfarawati, Samer ^a   Raberi, Araz ^a   Alviggi, Carlo ^c   Pivonello, Rosario ^c   Wells, Dagan ^a,d  

^a Reprogenetics LLC   (United States)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aneuploidy; human sperm; male infertility; sperm DNA damage; telomere length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TELOMERE LENGTH; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE;

EID: 84989938595     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2016.06.006     Document Type: Article

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