Novel Mutations in X-Linked, USP26-Induced Asthenoteratozoospermia and Male Infertility

Mitochondrial DNA mutations and male infertility

Infertility can be defined as difficulty in conceiving a child after 1 year of unprotected intercourse. Infertility can arise either because of the male factor or female factor or both. According to the current estimates, 15% of couples attempting their first pregnancy could not succeed. Infertility is either primary or secondary. Mitochondria have profound effect on all biochemical pathways, i...

Novel concepts in male infertility.

Extraordinary advances have been achieved in the field of male infertility in the last decades. There are new concepts in sperm physiology and several modern tools for the assessment of spermatogenesis kinetics in vivo. New tests using molecular biology and DNA damage assays allow the clinician to correctly diagnose men so far classified as having idiopathic male infertility. In the field of tr...

two novel mutations in an x-linked charcot-marie-tooth disease family

charcot-marie-tooth disease (cmt) is the most common form of inherited peripheral neuropathy. cmt is genetically and clinically heterogenous group of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies characterized by areflexia, distal sensory loss and progressive weakness of the distal limb muscles. the x-linked cmt (cmtx) is the second most frequent form of charcot-marie-tooth disease. the dominant cm...

Gene Mutations Associated with Male Infertility

Study on KAL1 Gene Mutations in Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism Patients with X-Linked Recessive Inheritance

Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) is a condition caused by low doses of hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) leading to absence or incomplete sexual maturation. One of the disorders leading to IHH is Kallmann syndrome which is characterized by GnRH deficiency with anosmia or hyposmia. This disorder generally occurs as a hereditary syndrome with X-linked recessive inhe...