Prevalence of Y chromosome deletions in a Brazilian population of nonobstructive azoospermic and severely oligozoospermic men

We determined the prevalence of Y chromosome deletions in a population of 60 Brazilian nonobstructive azoospermic and severely oligozoospermic men. PCR-based screening of microdeletions was performed on lymphocyte DNA for the presence of 14 sequence-tagged sites (STS) located in the azoospermic fact...

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Main Authors: S.L. SãoPedro, R. Fraietta, D. Spaine, C.S. Porto, M. Srougi, A.P. Cedenho, M.C.W. Avellar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2003-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2003000600015