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However, the incidence of <jats:italic>TLE6<\/jats:italic> variants in patients with preimplantation embryonic lethality is not fully understood. In this study, we identified four patients carrying novel biallelic <jats:italic>TLE6<\/jats:italic> variants in a cohort of 28 patients with preimplantation embryonic lethality by whole-exome sequencing and bioinformatics analysis, accounting for 14.29% (4\/28) of the cohort. Immunofluorescence showed that the TLE6 levels in oocytes from patients were much lower than in normal control oocytes, suggesting that the variants result in the lower expression of the TLE6 protein in oocytes. In addition, a retrospective analysis showed that the four patients underwent a total of nine failures of <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection attempts, and one of them became pregnant on the first attempt using donated oocytes. Our study extends the genetic spectrum of female infertility caused by variants in <jats:italic>TLE6<\/jats:italic> and further confirms previously reported findings that TLE6 plays an essential role in early embryonic development. 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