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Biallelic mutations in CFAP65 cause male infertility with multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella in humans and mice.

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BACKGROUND:Male infertility is a prevalent issue worldwide, mostly due to the impaired sperm motility. Multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF) present aberrant spermatozoa with absent, short, coiled, bent and irregular-calibre flagella resulting in severely decreased motility. Previous studies reported several MMAF-associated genes accounting for approximately half of MMAF cases. METHODS AND RESULT:We conducted genetic analysis using whole-exome sequencing in 88 Han Chinese MMAF probands. CFAP65 homozygous mutations were identified in four unrelated consanguineous families, and CFAP65 compound heterozygous mutations were found in two unrelated cases with MMAF. All these CFAP65 mutations were null, including four frameshift mutations (c.1775delC [p.Pro592Leufs*8], c.3072_3079dup [p.Arg1027Profs*41], c.1946delC [p.Pro649Argfs*5] and c.1580delT [p.Leu527Argfs*31]) and three stop-gain mutations (c.4855C>T [p.Arg1619*], c.5270T>A [p.Leu1757*] and c.5341G>T [p.Glu1781*]). Additionally, two homozygous CFAP65 variants likely affecting splicing were identified in two MMAF-affected men of Tunisian and Iranian ancestries, respectively. These biallelic variants of CFAP65 were verified by Sanger sequencing and were absent or very rare in large data sets aggregating sequence information from various human populations. CFAP65, encoding the cilia and flagella associated protein 65, is highly and preferentially expressed in the testis. Here we also generated a frameshift mutation in mouse orthologue Cfap65 using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Remarkably, the phenotypes of Cfap65-mutated male mice were consistent with human MMAF. CONCLUSIONS:Our experimental observations performed on both human subjects and on Cfap65-mutated mice demonstrate that the presence of biallelic mutations in CFAP65 causes the MMAF phenotype and impairs sperm motility.

journal_name

J Med Genet

journal_title

Journal of medical genetics

authors

Li W,Wu H,Li F,Tian S,Kherraf ZE,Zhang J,Ni X,Lv M,Liu C,Tan Q,Shen Y,Amiri-Yekta A,Cazin C,Zhang J,Liu W,Zheng Y,Cheng H,Wu Y,Wang J,Gao Y,Chen Y,Zha X,Jin L,Liu M,He X,Ray PF,Cao Y,Zhang F

doi

10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106344

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-02-01 00:00:00

pages

89-95

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eissn

0022-2593

issn

1468-6244

pii

jmedgenet-2019-106344

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Biallelic mutations in CFAP65 cause male infertility with multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella in humans and mice.