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Here, a pioneering attempt has been made to elucidate the interactions of such deletions with the habits of SCT consumption among the participating individuals, using their large epidemiological data. This screening program was conducted among Bengali-speaking men in West Bengal, India. We screened the prevalence and association of distinct partial deletions (gr\/gr, b1\/b3, and b2\/b3) of the AZFc region using locus-specific sequence-tagged site (STS) markers among 728 case subjects and compared them with 264 ethnicity- and age-matched proven-fertile control men. The recorded epidemiological data of the study group and the outcome of partial deletion analysis were compiled to frame the plausible Gene \u00d7 Epidemiological factor (G \u00d7 E) interactions. The gr\/gr deletion was reported to be significantly associated with azoospermic ( p\u2009=\u2009.0015, odds ratio [OR]\u2009=\u20093.413) and oligozoospermic ( p\u2009=\u2009.0382, OR\u2009=\u20093.012) case subgroups, and b1\/b3 deletions were also detected among the infertile persons only. The G \u00d7 E model revealed that men who carried microdeletions as well as were SCT users had an elevated risk of infertility ( p\u2009=\u2009.002, OR\u2009=\u20096.38). The study highlights the fact that AZFc partial deletions and SCT, when co-occurred, synergistically increase the risk of infertility among men. 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