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In this study, we recruited a consanguineous Iranian pedigree with four male patients diagnosed with congenital unilateral absence of the vas deferens (CUAVD), and one female patient diagnosed with congenital absence of the uterus (CAU). Testicular biopsy of one patient was performed, and hematoxylin and eosin (H and E) staining of testis sections displayed the presence of germ cell types ranging from spermatogonia to mature spermatids, indicating obstructive azoospermia. To explore the underlying genetic factor in this familial disorder, we therefore performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) on all available family members. WES data filtration and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">CFTR<\/jats:italic>\n                    haplotype analysis identified compound heterozygous mutations in\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">CFTR<\/jats:italic>\n                    among four patients (two CUAVD patients carried p.H949Y and p.L997F, and one CUAVD and the female CAU patient carried p.H949Y and p.I148T). All these mutations were predicted to be deleterious by at least half of the prediction software programs and were confirmed by Sanger sequencing. Our study reported that\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">CFTR<\/jats:italic>\n                    compound heterozygous mutations in a consanguineous Iranian family cause infertility in both sexes.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4103\/aja202177","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,9]],"date-time":"2021-11-09T07:55:16Z","timestamp":1636444516000},"page":"416-421","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["CFTR mutations causing congenital unilateral absence of the vas deferens (CUAVD) and congenital absence of the uterus (CAU) in a consanguineous family"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Mahdieh Daliri","family":"Ghouchanatigh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, School of Life Sciences, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular 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