The human DAZ genes, a putative male infertility factor on the Y chromosome, are highly polymorphic in the DAZ repeat regions

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 756-759

  Yen, Pauline H ^a   Chai, Ning Ning ^a   Salido, Eduardo C ^b  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DAZ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 9844260065     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900560     Document Type: Article

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