X chromosome-linked CNVs in male infertility: discovery of overall duplication load and recurrent, patient-specific gains with potential clinical relevance.

INTRODUCTION:Spermatogenesis is a highly complex process involving several thousand genes, only a minority of which have been studied in infertile men. In a previous study, we identified a number of Copy Number Variants (CNVs) by high-resolution array-Comparative Genomic Hybridization (a-CGH) analys...

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Main Authors: Chiara Chianese, Adam C Gunning, Claudia Giachini, Fabrice Daguin, Giancarlo Balercia, Elisabet Ars, Deborah Lo Giacco, Eduard Ruiz-Castañé, Gianni Forti, Csilla Krausz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4051606?pdf=render