Analysis of STAG3 variants in Chinese non-obstructive azoospermia patients with germ cell maturation arrest

Abstract STAG3 is essential for male meiosis and testis of male Stag3 −/− mice shows the histopathological type of germ cell maturation arrest (MA). Whether variants of the STAG3 gene exist in Chinese idiopathic non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) patients needs to be determined. We recruited 58 Chine...

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Main Authors: Wen Liu, Xuan Gao, Haobo Zhang, Ran Liu, Yongzhi Cao, Ruimei Yu, Ge Fang, Jinlong Ma, Shidou Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89559-9