ea0041s17.1 | Genetics and epigenetics of testicular failure | ECE2016
Tuttelmann Frank
Infertility affects 1015% of couples and the causes of couple infertility are equally attributed to male and female (co-)factors. Male infertility is a genetically and clinically highly heterogeneous disease with a multitude of up to 1,500 genes supposedly involved in spermatogenesis. Thus, unravelling the underlying causes and the pathophysiology is challenging and candidate gene approaches, e.g. picking one or several genes known to cause infertility in mice, did not i...