Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 4 , Pages 1077-1084 , April 2009

Fragmentation of DNA in morphologically normal human spermatozoa

Received 29 October 2007 ,Revised 4 January 2008 ,Accepted 4 January 2008.

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 C.A. has nothing to disclose. A.F. has nothing to disclose. S.T. has nothing to disclose. M.M. has nothing to disclose. S.B. has nothing to disclose. S.O. has nothing to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.015

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 4 , Pages 1077-1084 , April 2009

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