ea0029p1051 | Male Reproduction | ICEECE2012
Tuttelmann F.
, Hoefsloot L.
, Patton S.
, Simoni M.
, Krausz C.
Introduction: Y-chromosomal azoospermia factor (AZF) microdeletions are one of the few well-established genetic causes of male infertility, specifically azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia. Since the introduction of a PCR-based method to easily detect the distinct deletion patterns, the screening of infertile men for Y microdeletions has become a very common genetic test performed frequently by a large number of laboratories. An external quality control scheme was establishe...