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Relationship between Y-chromosomal DNA haplotype and sperm count in Italy
S Paracchini1, L Stuppia, V Gatta
1CRC Chromosome Molecular Biology Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
|January 30, 2003
Abstract:
Forty Italian individuals with sperm counts in the range 20-130x10(6)/ml were typed with eleven Y-specific binary markers. Five Y haplogroups (1, 2, 3, 9 and 21) were present in the sample. In Italy, in contrast to Denmark, sperm counts were similar in the different haplogroups.