title: Y microdeletions in the Istria county, Croatia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish the frequency of Y chromosome microdeletions in an unselected group of infertile Croatian men.
  
  
  METHODS
  An unselected group of 105 patients (male partners of infertile couples), both with idiopathic and non-idiopathic infertility, consecutively referred to the outpatient infertility clinic, gynecology department, General Hospital Pula, Istria County, Croatia, was examined for the presence or absence of Y chromosome microdeletions by polymerase chain reaction analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One of the 105 men (0.95%, 95% CI = 0.17-5.2%) was found to have a microdeletion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A low frequency of Y chromosome microdeletions was found in the group of unselected infertile Croatian men.
authors.affiliation: Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Medica
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gligorievska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prenc
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Peterlin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D017523:Croatia; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged