Due to its role during meiosis, variations in the PRDM9 nucleotide sequence have been associated with different pathologies of meiotic origin: infertility (Irie et al. 2009), de novo genomic disorders (Berg et al. 2010; Borel et al. 2012), and childhood leukemogenesis (Hussin et al. 2013) (OMIM accession number: 609760). So far, alleles of the PRDM9 zinc finger array have been determined in stu...
