Substantial prevalence of microdeletions of the Y-chromosome in infertile men with idiopathic azoospermia and oligozoospermia detected using a sequence-tagged site-based mapping strategy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1347-1352

  Najmabadi, Hossein ^a   Huang, Vivian ^a   Yen, Pauline ^b   Subbarao, Makam N ^a   Bhasin, Dimple ^a   Banaag, Liza ^a   Naseeruddin, Syed ^a   De Kretser, David M ^d   Baker, H W Gordon ^c   McLachlan, Robert I ^d   Loveland, Kate A ^d   Bhasin, Shalender ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TESTIS BIOPSY;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 9244243681     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.4.1347     Document Type: Article

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