H NAJMABADI

From the Welfare Science and Rehabilitation University (HN), Tehran, Iran; Karimi-Nejad Pathology & Genetic Center (HN, SS, FS), Tehran, Iran; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and MolecularMedicine (KK. WT, LR, AN, MG, SB) and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (BS), Charles R.Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Obstetrics andGynecology, University of Melbourne, Australia; Institute of Reproduction and Development (DMdK,RIM. KAL), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Prince Henry:S Medical Research Institute (RIMc), and Karolinska Institute, Stokholm, Sweden (S A).

[ 1 ] - SUBMICROSCOPIC DELETIONS OF THE Y CHROMOSOME ARE NOT LIMITED TO AZOOSPERMIC MEN, BUT ARE ALSO DETECTED IN INFERTILE MEN WITH IDIOPATHIC OLIGOZOOSPERMIA

It is now agreed that 10-25% of infertile men with azoospermia have submicroscopic deletions of the Y chromosome long ann (yq), consistent with the proposed location of the azoospermia locus (AZF) in Yq 11.23. However, it is not known whether Yq microdeletions are unique to men with azoospermia or whether they are also observed in infertile men with less severe defects of spermatogenesis (o...

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