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Impact of polymorphism in DNA repair genes OGG1 and XRCC1 on seminal parameters and human male infertility.
Andrologia - 1 Dec 2018
Garcia-Rodriguez Anaís, de la Casa Moises, Serrano Malena, Gosálvez Jamie, Roy Barcelona Rosa
Abstract excerpt
The DNA repair capacity in the mature spermatozoa is highly compromised due to the base-excision repair (BER) route being truncated. In the mature spermatozoa, only the first enzyme of the route (OGG1) is present. Consequently, reduced activity of the enzymes of the BER route both during spermatogenesis and in the mature spermatozoa may be detrimental for fertility. The objective of our study was to investigate...
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