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Determination of genetic factors before intracytoplasmic sperm injection can prevent the inheritance of these factors, as hypospermatogenesis patients gives high successful sperm retrieval rate. This study aimed to identify the structural variants associated with idiopathic hypospermatogenesis (iHS) by analyzing patient cohorts diagnosed with azoospermia using whole exome sequencing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>It is a hospital-based observational study in which patients reporting with azoospermia due to spermatogenic failure were recruited prospectively. Comprehensive clinical history, blood samples, semen analysis parameters, and reproductive endocrine evaluation reports of 51 hypospermatogenesis patients were collected. The known genetic causes were investigated using XY fluorescent <jats:italic>in situ<\/jats:italic> hybridization and Yq microdeletion for exclusion. Whole exome sequencing was performed, and the data of 42 iHS patients was analyzed to identify single nucleotide variants associated with diagnostically important male infertility genes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Genomic analysis of SNVs identified rare deleterious candidate variants in <jats:italic>CFTR<\/jats:italic> (c.1265C&amp;gt;T; p.Ser422Phe), <jats:italic>CYP21A2<\/jats:italic> (c.955C&amp;gt;T; p.Gln319Glu), <jats:italic>SRD5A2<\/jats:italic> (c.737G&amp;gt;A; p.Arg245Gln), <jats:italic>LHCGR<\/jats:italic> (c.378A&amp;gt;C; p.Lys126Asn) and <jats:italic>AR<\/jats:italic> (c.2179C&amp;gt;A; p.Arg727Ser) genes associated with 7\/42 idiopathic hypospermatogenesis patients. In silico analysis of variants shows deleterious and probably damaging effects on canonical transcripts of the genes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This exploratory genomic analysis conducted on idiopathic hypospermatogenesis patients shows prevalence of rare deleterious candidate variants in genes associated with human male infertility. The candidate variants in idiopathic hypospermatogenesis patients are heterozygous and genotypically associated with syndromic male infertility. The symptomatic heterozygosity leading to mild spermatogenic failure resulting in hypospermatogenesis points towards a multifactorial etiology of the disease. This study justifies the importance of genetic screening of idiopathic hypospermatogenesis patients for the presence of structural variants in known human male infertility genes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/frph.2024.1494585","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,3]],"date-time":"2025-01-03T06:50:40Z","timestamp":1735887040000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Identification of deleterious variants associated with male infertility genes in a cohort of idiopathic hypospermatogenesis patients"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Nisha","family":"Sharma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ashutosh","family":"Halder","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Seema","family":"Kaushal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Manoj","family":"Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Manish","family":"Jain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.4103\/0974-7796.75867","article-title":"Histopathological patterns of testicular biopsy in male infertility: a retrospective study from a tertiary care center in the western part of Saudi Arabia","volume":"3","author":"Abdullah","year":"2011","journal-title":"Urol Ann"},{"key":"B2","first-page":"231","article-title":"Human hypospermatogenesis. 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