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ArticleBasic and clinical andrology2019

Genes located in Y-chromosomal regions important for male fertility show altered transcript levels in cryptorchidism and respond to curative hormone treatment.

Katharina Gegenschatz-Schmid, Gilvydas Verkauskas, Michael B Stadler, Faruk Hadziselimovic

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Article in Basic and clinical andrology, 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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  8. Advocating hormonal treatment to prevent adult in-fertility in patients diagnosed with congenital un-descended testes.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Katharina Gegenschatz-SchmidCryptorchidism Research Institute, Kindermedizinisches Zentrum Liestal, 4410 Liestal, Switzerland.
Gilvydas Verkauskas2Children's Surgery Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius of University, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania.
Michael B Stadler3Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
Faruk HadziselimovicCryptorchidism Research Institute, Kindermedizinisches Zentrum Liestal, 4410 Liestal, Switzerland.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHVilnius University · LT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundUndescended (cryptorchid) testes in patients with defective mini-puberty and low testosterone levels contain gonocytes that fail to differentiate normally, which impairs the development of Ad spermatogonia and ultimately leads to adult infertility. Treatment with the gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist GnRHa increases luteinizing hormone and testosterone and rescues fertility in the majority of pathological cryptorchid testes. Several Y-chromosomal genes in the male-specific Y region (MSY) are essential for spermatogenesis, testis development and function, and are associated with azoospermia, infertility and cryptorchidism. In this study, we analyzed the expression of MSY genes in testes with Ad spermatogonia (low infertility risk patients) as compared to testes lacking Ad spermatogonia (high infertility risk) before and after curative GnRHa treatment, and in correlation to their location on the Y-chromosome.

resultsTwenty genes that are up- or down-regulated in the Ad- group are in the X-degenerate or the ampliconic region, respectively. GnRHa treatment increases mRNA levels of 14 genes in the ampliconic region and decreases mRNA levels of 10 genes in the X-degenerate region.

conclusionOur findings implicate Y-chromosomal genes, including

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Ad spermatogoniaAZF regionCryptorchidismGnRHa treatmentInfertilityLHMini-pubertyRNA-sequencingTestosteroneY-chromosome

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