AZF microdeletions

Investigation of AZF microdeletions in patients with Klinefelter syndrome

L. X. Li, Dai, H. Y., Ding, X. P., Zhang, Y. P., Zhang, X. H., Ren, H. Y., and Chen, Z. Y., “Investigation of AZF microdeletions in patients with Klinefelter syndrome”, vol. 14, pp. 15140-15147, 2015.

We investigated azoospermia region microdeletions in male infertility patients with Klinefelter syndrome (KFS), as well as the association between azoospermia symptoms in patients with KFS and Y chromosome microdeletion polymorphisms. A total of 111 cases with male infertility confirmed to have KFS (47, XXY) and 94 fertile men were included in this study. Peripheral blood was drawn and DNA was extracted from these samples. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction was performed to screen the partial deletions of 25 sequence-tagged sites on the Y chromosome.

Cytogenetic and molecular analysis of infertile Chinese men: karyotypic abnormalities, Y-chromosome microdeletions, and CAG and GGN repeat polymorphisms in the androgen receptor gene

T. T. Han, Ran, J., Ding, X. P., Li, L. J., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, Y. P., Nie, S. S., and Chen, L., “Cytogenetic and molecular analysis of infertile Chinese men: karyotypic abnormalities, Y-chromosome microdeletions, and CAG and GGN repeat polymorphisms in the androgen receptor gene”, vol. 12, pp. 2215-2226, 2013.

Chromosome abnormalities, Y-chromosome microdeletions, and androgen receptor gene CAG and GGN repeat polymorphisms in infertile Chinese men featuring severe oligospermia and azoospermia were analyzed. Ninety-six fertile men and 189 non-obstructive infertile men, including 125 patients with azoospermia and 64 with severe oligozoospermia, were studied. Seventeen infertile men (9.0%) carried a chromosome abnormality. Twenty (10.6%) carried a Y-chromosome microdeletion. In the remainder of the patients and controls, GGN and CAG repeats were sequenced.