ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2022
Whole Exome Sequencing and In Silico Analysis of Human Sertoli in Patients with Non-Obstructive Azoospermia.
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- Diagnostic yield of exome sequencing in nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA): A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Anti-Müllerian hormone predicts positive sperm retrieval in men with idiopathic non-obstructive azoospermia-findings from a multi-centric cross-sectional study.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Pooled it
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- Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies Oxidative Stress-Related Hub Genes and Key Pathways in Sperm Maturation.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Identification of novel cytoskeleton protein involved in spermatogenic cells and sertoli cells of non-obstructive azoospermia based on microarray and bioinformatics analysis.BMC medical genomics · 2025Article
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- Integrating microarray data and single-cell RNA-seq reveals correlation between kit and nmyc in mouse spermatogonia stem cell population.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Article
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- Integrating Microarray Data and Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals Key Gene Involved in Spermatogonia Stem Cell Aging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Exploring the interaction between immune cells in the prostate cancer microenvironment combining weighted correlation gene network analysis and single-cell sequencing: An integrated bioinformatics analysis.Discover oncology · 2024Article
- Differential expression of ion channel coding genes in the endometrium of women experiencing recurrent implantation failures.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Clinical management, differential diagnosis, follow-up and biomarkers of infertile men with nonobstructive azoospermia.Translational andrology and urology · 2024Article
- Molecular mechanisms of cellular dysfunction in testes from men with non-obstructive azoospermia.Nature reviews. Urology · 2024Review
- Seasonal and age-related changes in sperm quality of farmed arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus).BMC genomics · 2023Article
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Abstract
Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) is a serious cause of male infertility. The Sertoli cell responds to androgens and takes on roles supporting spermatogenesis, which may cause infertility. This work aims to enhance the genetic diagnosis of NOA via the discovery of new and hub genes implicated in human NOA and to better assess the odds of successful sperm extraction according to the individual's genotype. Whole exome sequencing (WES) was done on three NOA patients to find key genes involved in NOA. We evaluated genome-wide transcripts (about 50,000 transcripts) by microarray between the Sertoli of non-obstructive azoospermia and normal cells. The microarray analysis of three human cases with different non-obstructive azoospermia revealed that 32 genes were upregulated, and the expressions of 113 genes were downregulated versus the normal case. For this purpose, Enrich Shiny GO, STRING, and Cytoscape online evaluations were applied to predict the functional and molecular interactions of proteins and then recognize the master pathways. The functional enrichment analysis demonstrated that the biological process (BP) terms "inositol lipid-mediated signaling", "positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II", and "positive regulation of DNA-templated transcription" significantly changed in upregulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs). The BP investigation of downregulated DEGs highlighted "mitotic cytokinesis", "regulation of protein-containing complex assembly", "cytoskeleton-dependent cytokinesis", and the "peptide metabolic process". Overrepresented molecular function (MF) terms in upregulated DEGs included "ubiquitin-specific protease binding", "protease binding", "phosphatidylinositol trisphosphate phosphatase activity", and "clathrin light chain binding". Interestingly, the MF analysis of the downregulated DEGs revealed overexpression in "ATPase inhibitor activity", "glutathione transferase activity", and "ATPase regulator activity". Our findings suggest that these genes and their interacting hub proteins could help determine the pathophysiologies of germ cell abnormalities and infertility.
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