Disorders of spermatogenesis: Perspectives for novel genetic diagnostics after 20 years of unchanged routine;Spermatogenesestörungen: Perspektiven für erweiterte genetische Diagnostik nach 20 Jahren unveränderter Routine

Medizinische Genetik

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 12-20

  Tüttelmann, Frank ^a   Ruckert, Christian ^a   Röpke, Albrecht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Male infertility; Oligozoospermia

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DMRT1 GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NR5A1 GENE; OLIGOSPERMIA; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEX11 GENE; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85042529929     PISSN: 09365931     EISSN: 18635490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11825-018-0181-7     Document Type: Review

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