Are AZFb deletions always incompatible with sperm production?

Andrology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 691-694

  Stouffs, K ^a   Vloeberghs, V ^b   Gheldof, A ^a   Tournaye, H ^b   Seneca, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AZFb; azoospermia; infertility; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZFB REGION; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; Y CHROMOSOME; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FERTILITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 85017420404     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/andr.12350     Document Type: Article

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