Defending male fertility.

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An estimated 10 to 15% of couples suffer from infertility, and many treatment decisions rely on trial and error. In this issue of Science Translational Medicine, Tollner and colleagues provide strong evidence from a human genetics study that a common variant in the beta defensin 126 gene, the "del" variant, can reduce male fertility substantially. In addition, they show a plausible mechanism for reduced...

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