A data-driven search for semen-related phenotypes in conception delay

Andrology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 95-102

  Patel, C J ^a   Sundaram, R ^b   Buck Louis, G M ^b  

^a Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

conception delay; fecundity; semen analysis; sperm quality parameters

Indexed keywords

COTININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCEPTION; CONCEPTION DELAY; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEDICAL HISTORY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPERM; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TIME TO PREGNANCY; CYTOLOGY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TIME-TO-PREGNANCY;

EID: 85000420314     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/andr.12288     Document Type: Article

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