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A Novel Mutation of DAX-1 Associated with Secretory Azoospermia.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Mou Lisha, Xie Nie, Yang Lihua, Liu Yuchen, Diao Ruiying, Cai Zhiming, Li Honggang, Gui Yaoting
Abstract excerpt
Secretory azoospermia is a severe form of male infertility caused by unknown factors. DAX-1 is predominantly expressed in mammalian reproductive tissues and plays an important role in spermatogenesis because Dax-1 knockout male mice show spermatogenesis defects. To examine whether DAX-1 is involved in the pathogenesis of secretory azoospermia in humans, we sequenced all of the exons of DAX-1 in 776 patients...
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