Article
Genetic causes of male infertility.
Annales d'endocrinologie - 1 May 2014
Stouffs Katrien, Seneca Sara, Lissens Willy
Abstract excerpt
Male infertility, affecting around half of the couples with a problem to get pregnant, is a very heterogeneous condition. Part of patients are having a defect in spermatogenesis of which the underlying causes (including genetic ones) remain largely unknown. The only genetic tests routinely used in the diagnosis of male infertility are the analyses for the presence of Yq microdeletions and/or chromosomal...
Topics
- Azoospermia
- Causality
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Y
- Comparative Genomic Hybridization
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Infertility, Male
