Clinical usefulness of sperm DNA fragmentation testing

Alex C Varghese¹, Grace Tan^{2

3}, Peter Chan^{2

4}, Seang Lin Tan^{2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Astra Fertility Clinic, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
² OriginElle Fertility Clinic and Women's Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁴ Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁵ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Comment

Alex C Varghese et al. Transl Androl Urol. 2017 Sep.

. 2017 Sep;6(Suppl 4):S484-S487.

doi: 10.21037/tau.2017.06.12.

Alex C Varghese¹, Grace Tan^{2

3}, Peter Chan^{2

4}, Seang Lin Tan^{2

5}

¹ Astra Fertility Clinic, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
² OriginElle Fertility Clinic and Women's Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁴ Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁵ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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