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ArticleScientific reports2019

High frequencies of Non Allelic Homologous Recombination (NAHR) events at the AZF loci and male infertility risk in Indian men.

Deepa Selvi Rani, Singh Rajender, Kadupu Pavani, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Avinash A Rasalkar, Nalini J Gupta, Mamta Deendayal, Baidyanath Chakravarty, Kumarasamy Thangaraj

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Deepa Selvi RaniCSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.
Singh RajenderCSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India.
Kadupu PavaniCSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.
Gyaneshwer ChaubeyDepartment of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2899-3852
Avinash A RasalkarCSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.
Nalini J GuptaInstitute of Reproductive Medicine, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India.
Mamta DeendayalInfertility Institute and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India.
Baidyanath ChakravartyInstitute of Reproductive Medicine, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India.
Kumarasamy ThangarajCSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India. thangs@ccmb.res.in.
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology · INInstitute of Reproductive Medicine · INBanaras Hindu University · INCentral Drug Research Institute · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deletions in the AZoospermia Factor (AZF) regions (spermatogenesis loci) on the human Y chromosome are reported as one of the most common causes of severe testiculopathy and spermatogenic defects leading to male infertility, yet not much data is available for Indian infertile men. Therefore, we screened for AZF region deletions in 973 infertile men consisting of 771 azoospermia, 105 oligozoospermia and 97 oligoteratozoospermia cases, along with 587 fertile normozoospermic men. The deletion screening was carried out using AZF-specific markers: STSs (Sequence Tagged Sites), SNVs (Single Nucleotide Variations), PCR-RFLP (Polymerase Chain Reaction - Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism) analysis of STS amplicons, DNA sequencing and Southern hybridization techniques. Our study revealed deletion events in a total of 29.4% of infertile Indian men. Of these, non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR) events accounted for 25.8%, which included 3.5% AZFb deletions, 2.3% AZFbc deletions, 6.9% complete AZFc deletions, and 13.1% partial AZFc deletions. We observed 3.2% AZFa deletions and a rare long AZFabc region deletion in 0.5% azoospermic men. This study illustrates how the ethnicity, endogamy and long-time geographical isolation of Indian populations might have played a major role in the high frequencies of deletion events.

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AdultAllelesAsian PeopleAzoospermiaChromosomes, Human, YGenetic LociHomologous RecombinationHumansIndiaInfertility, MaleMaleMiddle AgedOligospermiaPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSeminal Plasma ProteinsSequence DeletionSeminal Plasma Proteins

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PMID31000748
PMCPMC6472346
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