Research Question: Chromosomal translocations are known genetic causes of male infertility. Are certain translocations or chromosomal regions more directly associated with sperm defects? Is there a threshold of sperm impairment that can be relevant for detection of translocations?
Design: This is a monocentric retrospective observational study covering a 10-year period. Eighty-one patients carrying a reciprocal translocation (RCT) and 63 carrying a Robertsonian translocation (ROBT) were compared with 105 fertile patients. Semen quality before and after sperm migration was compared. The aims were to define whether a threshold based on sperm analysis could be proposed for detection of translocations and to identify whether some redundant chromosomal regions might be associated with sperm quality defects.
Results: The number of progressive spermatozoa retrieved after sperm preparation (NPS-ASP) was altered in both RCT and ROBT carriers compared with controls, with a stronger alteration in ROBT. Based on the NPS-ASP results in this large group of translocation carriers, a relatively robust threshold, fixed at less than 5 million, may be proposed for detection of translocations. The alteration of NPS-ASP was independent of the chromosome involved in ROBT, while in RCT, four redundant chromosomal regions (1q21, 6p21, 16q21, 17q11.2) were associated with poor or very poor NPS-ASP.
Conclusions: The NPS-ASP appears to be a good parameter to assess sperm function and would be a useful tool to detect chromosomal translocations. Four redundant regions have been identified on four chromosomes, suggesting that they may contain genes of interest to study sperm functions.
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