Giancarlo Balercia

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

review 2017

Vitamin D and chronic diseases: the current state of the art

Archives of toxicology ·doi:10.1007/s00204-016-1804-x

The objective was to provide the current state of the art regarding the role of vitamin D in chronic diseases (osteoporosis, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, dementia, autism, type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, male and female fertility).…

observational 2014

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

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097746

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-reso…