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Y chromosome microdeletions: are they implicated in teratozoospermia?
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Dec 2005
Hellani Ali, Al-Hassan Saad, Al-Duraihim Adel, Coskun Serdar
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BACKGROUND: Y chromosome microdeletions are known to impair spermatogenesis. Screenings for these microdeletions are performed mostly in patients with sperm count abnormalities. METHODS: We have screened the Y chromosome of 80 infertile patients with sperm morphological abnormalities. DNA from sperm, peripheral blood or single sperm following multiple displacement amplification (MDA) was utilized to amplify 20...
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