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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 81, 1347-1352, Copyright © 1996 by Endocrine Society

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Substantial prevalence of microdeletions of the Y-chromosome in infertile men with idiopathic azoospermia and oligozoospermia detected using a sequence-tagged site-based mapping strategy

H Najmabadi, V Huang, P Yen, MN Subbarao, D Bhasin, L Banaag, S Naseeruddin, DM de Kretser, HW Baker and RI McLachlan
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, King-Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90059, USA.

Genes on the long arm of Y (Yq), particularly within interval 6, are believed to play a critical role in human spermatogenesis. Cytogenetically detectable deletions of this region are associated with azoospermia in men, but are relatively uncommon. It has been hypothesized that microdeletions of Yq may account for a significant proportion of men with infertility. The objective of this study was to validate a sequence-tagged site (STS)-mapping strategy for the detection of Yq microdeletions and to use this method to determine the proportion of men with idiopathic azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia who carry microdeletions in Yq. STS mapping of a sufficiently large sample of infertile men should also help further localize the putative gene(s) involved in the pathogenesis of male infertility. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral leukocytes of 16 normal fertile men, 7 normal fertile women, 60 infertile men (50 of whom had azoospermia and 10 of whom had severe oligozoospermia with no other recognizable cause of infertility), and 15 patients with the X-linked disorder, ichthyosis. PCR primers were synthesized for 26 STSs that span Yq interval 6. None of the 16 normal men of known fertility had microdeletions. Seven normal fertile women failed to amplify any of the 26 STSs, providing evidence of their Y specificity. No microdeletions were detected in any of the 15 patients with ichthyosis. Of the 60 infertile men typed with 26 STSs, 11 (18%; 10 azoospermic and 1 oligozoospermic) failed to amplify 1 or more STS. Interestingly, 4 of the 11 patients had microdeletions in a region that is outside the Yq region from which the DAZ (deleted in azoospermia gene region) gene was cloned. In an additional 3 patients, microdeletions were present both inside and outside the DAZ region. In 3 subjects, the microdeletions were verified by Southern analysis using labeled PCR products corresponding to the deleted STSs as probes. These data suggest a high prevalence (18%) of Yq microdeletions in men with idiopathic azoospermia/severe oligospermia. The physical locations of these microdeletions provide further support for the concept that a gene(s) on Yq deletion interval 6 plays an important role in spermatogenesis. The presence of deletions that do not overlap with the DAZ region suggests that genes other than the DAZ gene may also be implicated in the pathogenesis of some subsets of male infertility.


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