Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Diverse monogenic subforms of human spermatogenic failure

  • Liina Nagirnaja,
  • Alexandra M. Lopes,
  • Wu-Lin Charng,
  • Brian Miller,
  • Rytis Stakaitis,
  • Ieva Golubickaite,
  • Alexandra Stendahl,
  • Tianpengcheng Luan,
  • Corinna Friedrich,
  • Eisa Mahyari,
  • Eloise Fadial,
  • Laura Kasak,
  • Katinka Vigh-Conrad,
  • Manon S. Oud,
  • Miguel J. Xavier,
  • Samuel R. Cheers,
  • Emma R. James,
  • Jingtao Guo,
  • Timothy G. Jenkins,
  • Antoni Riera-Escamilla,
  • Alberto Barros,
  • Filipa Carvalho,
  • Susana Fernandes,
  • João Gonçalves,
  • Christina A. Gurnett,
  • Niels Jørgensen,
  • Davor Jezek,
  • Emily S. Jungheim,
  • Sabine Kliesch,
  • Robert I. McLachlan,
  • Kenan R. Omurtag,
  • Adrian Pilatz,
  • Jay I. Sandlow,
  • James Smith,
  • Michael L. Eisenberg,
  • James M. Hotaling,
  • Keith A. Jarvi,
  • Margus Punab,
  • Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts,
  • Douglas T. Carrell,
  • Csilla Krausz,
  • Maris Laan,
  • Moira K. O’Bryan,
  • Peter N. Schlegel,
  • Frank Tüttelmann,
  • Joris A. Veltman,
  • Kristian Almstrup,
  • Kenneth I. Aston,
  • Donald F. Conrad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35661-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The GEMINI consortium sequenced 1,000 cases of idiopathic male infertility and identified a plausible Mendelian cause in 20% of cases. The infertility genes can be grouped by expression pattern, facilitating their interpretation and follow-up.