Genetics causes of male infertility in 185 patient-parent trios from Netherlands and UK

In this, whole exome sequencing was performed on 185 patients suffering from Azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia and on their respective fertile parents in order to investigate de novo and inherited genetic variants likely to be the cause of infertility in these men. After bioinformatic analysis and comprehensive variant interpretation several de novo point mutations and copy number variations were identified as well as multiple homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations in recessive genes that are likely influencing the infertility phenotypes observed in the patients.

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Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 3 Publications

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001007862	The dataset is composed by the raw and processed sequencing data generated from 185 Patients affected by azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia recruited from the Netherlands and the UK.	Illumina NovaSeq 6000 NextSeq 500	555

Publications	Citations
A de novo paradigm for male infertility. Oud MS, Smits RM, Smith HE, Mastrorosa FK, Holt GS, Houston BJ, de Vries PF, Alobaidi BKS, Batty LE, Ismail H, Greenwood J, Sheth H, Mikulasova A, Astuti GDN, Gilissen C, McEleny K, Turner H, Coxhead J, Cockell S, Braat DDM, Fleischer K, D'Hauwers KWM, Schaafsma E, Genetics of Male Infertility Initiative (GEMINI) consortium, Nagirnaja L, Conrad DF, Friedrich C, Kliesch S, Aston KI, Riera-Escamilla A, Krausz C, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Santibanez-Koref M, Elliott DJ, Vissers LELM, Tüttelmann F, O'Bryan MK, Ramos L, Xavier MJ, van der Heijden GW, Veltman JA. Nat Commun 13: 2022 154	28
The piRNA-pathway factor FKBP6 is essential for spermatogenesis but dispensable for control of meiotic LINE-1 expression in humans. Wyrwoll MJ, Gaasbeek CM, Golubickaite I, Stakaitis R, Oud MS, Nagirnaja L, Dion C, Sindi EB, Leitch HG, Jayasena CN, Sironen A, Dicke AK, Rotte N, Stallmeyer B, Kliesch S, Grangeiro CHP, Araujo TF, Lasko P, Genetics of Male Infertility Initiative (GEMINI) consortium, D'Hauwers K, Smits RM, Ramos L, Xavier MJ, Conrad DF, Almstrup K, Veltman JA, Tüttelmann F, van der Heijden GW. Am J Hum Genet 109: 2022 1850-1866	5
Inherited defects of piRNA biogenesis cause transposon de-repression, impaired spermatogenesis, and human male infertility. Stallmeyer B, Bühlmann C, Stakaitis R, Dicke AK, Ghieh F, Meier L, Zoch A, MacKenzie MacLeod D, Steingröver J, Okutman Ö, Fietz D, Pilatz A, Riera-Escamilla A, Xavier MJ, Ruckert C, Di Persio S, Neuhaus N, Gurbuz AS, Şalvarci A, Le May N, McEleny K, Friedrich C, van der Heijden G, Wyrwoll MJ, Kliesch S, Veltman JA, Krausz C, Viville S, Conrad DF, O'Carroll D, Tüttelmann F. Nat Commun 15: 2024 6637	1