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Novel mutations in testis-specific ubiquitin protease 26 gene may cause male infertility and hypogonadism.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Jun 2005
Paduch Darius A, Mielnik Anna, Schlegel Peter N
Abstract excerpt
Patients (n = 188) with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), and 17 fertile controls were screened for sequence changes in the ubiquitin specific protease (USP) 26 gene. Semen analysis, hormonal evaluation, and testicular biopsies were performed. DNA was extracted from whole blood. Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography was used to screen for single nucleotide polymorphisms. Amino acid sequences were...
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