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Greg L Christensen1, Ivaylo P Ivanov, John F Atkins
1University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Fertility and Sterility
|September 20, 2005
Abstract:
Populations of infertile and fertile men were screened for mutations in SPO11 and EIF5A2, two infertility candidate genes. Three heterozygous amino acid changes that might contribute to infertility were identified in the infertile group.
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