| Literature DB >> 17218641 |
Luísa Pereira1, João Gonçalves, Ricardo Franco-Duarte, Júlia Silva, Tiago Rocha, Christiane Arnold, Martin Richards, Vincent Macaulay.
Abstract
The first complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences (approximately 16,569 bp) in 20 patients with asthenozoospermia and a comparison with 23 new complete mtDNA sequences in teratoasthenozoospermic individuals, confirmed no sharing of specific polymorphisms or specific mitochondrial lineages between these individuals. This is strong evidence against the accepted claim of a major role played by mtDNA in male fertility, once supported by haplogroup association studies based on the screening of hypervariable region I. The hypothesis of maternally driven selection acting in male reproductive success must thus be treated with caution.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17218641 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Biol Evol ISSN: 0737-4038 Impact factor: 16.240