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Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is the most efficient way to make progress in mapping the causative genetic variants, and ultimately improve clinical management of the disease in each patient. Recruitment of consanguineous families is an effective approach to ascertain the genetic forms of many diseases.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title><jats:p>To apply WGS to large consanguineous families with likely hereditary male infertility and identify potential genetic cases.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We recruited seven large families with clinically diagnosed male infertility from rural Pakistan, including five with a history of consanguinity. We generated WGS data on 26 individuals (3\u20135 per family) and analyzed the resulting data with a computational pipeline to identify potentially causal single nucleotide variants, indels, and copy number variants.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We identified plausible genetic causes in five of the seven families, including a homozygous 10\u00a0kb deletion of exon 2 in a well\u2010established male infertility gene (<jats:italic>M1AP<\/jats:italic>), and biallelic missense substitutions (<jats:italic>SPAG6<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>CCDC9<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>TUBA3C<\/jats:italic>) and an in\u2010frame hemizygous deletion (<jats:italic>TKTL1<\/jats:italic>) in genes with emerging relevance.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion and conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The rate of genetic findings using the current approach (71%) was much higher than what we recently achieved using whole\u2010exome sequencing (WES) of unrelated singleton cases (20%). Furthermore, we identified a pathogenic single\u2010exon deletion in <jats:italic>M1AP<\/jats:italic> that would be undetectable by WES. 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