Balercia G

ORCID: 0000-0003-1286-1521 · 3 papers in corpus
2025
Genetic, Epigenetic, and Non-Genetic Factors in Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome: A Narrative Review.
Genes ·doi:10.3390/genes17010040

BackgroundTesticular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) is a complex disorder of the male reproductive system related to disfunction of the fetal testis. The clinical features of TDS may be evident at birth or infancy (cryptorchidism, hypospadias an…

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).…

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

IntroductionSpermatogenesis 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-resolu…