Article
A search for molecular mechanisms underlying male idiopathic infertility.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Mar 2018
Bracke An, Peeters Kris, Punjabi Usha, Hoogewijs David, Dewilde Sylvia
Abstract excerpt
Infertility affects approximately 15% of the couples wanting to conceive. In 30 - 40% of the cases the aetiology of male infertility remains unknown and is called idiopathic male infertility. When assisted reproductive technologies are used to obtain pregnancy, an adequate (epi)genetic diagnosis of male infertility is of major importance to evaluate if a genetic abnormality will be transmitted to the offspring....
Topics
- Animals
- Epigenomics
- Humans
- Infertility, Male
- Male
- Mutation
- Proteome
- Spermatogenesis