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The sperm epigenome does not display recurrent epimutations in patients with severely impaired spermatogenesis.
Clinical epigenetics - 6 May 2020
Leitão Elsa, Di Persio Sara, Laurentino Sandra, Wöste Marius, Dugas Martin, Kliesch Sabine, Neuhaus Nina, Horsthemke Bernhard
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In the past 15 years, numerous studies have described aberrant DNA methylation of imprinted genes (e.g. MEST and H19) in sperm of oligozoospermic men, but the prevalence and genomic extent of abnormal methylation patterns have remained unknown. RESULTS: Using deep bisulfite sequencing (DBS), we screened swim-up sperm samples from 40 normozoospermic and 93 patients diagnosed as...
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