| Literature DB >> 28611373 |
Umberto Valente1, Cinzia Vinanzi1, Savina Dipresa1, Riccardo Selice1, Massimo Menegazzo1, Massimo Iafrate1, Carlo Foresta1, Andrea Garolla2.
Abstract
Klinefelter Syndrome (KS) is the most common chromosomal disorder in men leading to non-obstructive azoospermia. Spermatozoa can be found by TESE in about 50% of adults with KS despite severe testicular degeneration. We evaluated AR variations and polymorphism length in 135 non-mosaic KS patients, aimed to find possible correlation with clinical features, sex hormones and sperm retrieval. Among 135 KS patients we found AR variations in eight subjects (5.9%). All variations but one caused a single amino acid substitution. Four variations P392S, Q58L, L548F, A475V found in six patients had been previously described to be associated with different degrees of androgen insensitivity. Moreover we observed in two patients Y359F and D732D novel variations representing respectively a missense variation and a synonymous variation not leading to amino acid substitution. All the Klinefelter patients with AR gene variations were azoospermic. Spermatozoa were retrieved with TESE for two men (40%), sperm retrieval was unsuccessful in other 3 patients. This is the only study reporting AR variations in KS patients. Relevant clinical differences not emerged between AR mutated and not AR mutated KS patients, but does each variation play an important role in the trasmission to the offspring obtained by ART in this patients?Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28611373 PMCID: PMC5469740 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03371-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Rep ISSN: 2045-2322 Impact factor: 4.379