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The polymorphic CAGn locus in exon 1 of the AR gene is associated with several diseases, including spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), prostate cancer, and male infertility. This study evaluated the CAGn locus in 9000 infertile Russian men and 286 fertile men (control group). The CAGn locus was analyzed using the amplified fragment length polymorphism method. In the infertile cohort, the number of CAG repeats ranged from 6 to 46, with a unimodal distribution. The number of CAG repeats in infertile and fertile men was 22.15 \u00b1 0.93 and 22.02 \u00b1 1.36, respectively. In infertile men, variants with 16 to 29 repeats were present in 97% of the alleles. A complete mutation (\u226542 CAG repeats) was found in three patients, while three others had 39-41 repeats. The incidence of SBMA was 1:3000 infertile men. Significant differences (p &lt; 0.05) were observed between infertile and fertile men in alleles with 21, 24 and 25 repeats. 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