Genetics of male infertility : genes implicated in non-obstructive azoospermia and severe oligozoospermia Özlem Okutman
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Özlem Okutman. Genetics of male infertility : genes implicated in non-obstructive azoospermia and severe oligozoospermia. Reproductive Biology. Université de Strasbourg, 2015. English. NNT : 2015STRAJ049. tel-01372898
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I% : 1QJs 1V`V :GsVJ JV1 .V` 1J R: : G:sV JQ` 1J ^ :CCVCVs_ V .J1H:CC7 I: H.VR .V:C .7 `V` 1CV HQJ `QCs8 %J`VC: VR T%`@1s. 1J`V` 1CV ]: 1VJ s 1V`V sH:JJVR `Q` GQ . 1RVJ 1`1VR I% : 1QJs :JR JQ I% : 1QJ 1:s 1RVJ 1`1VR8 86 C.:] V` E6QIV sV_%VJH1J$ `V0V:Cs : JQJsVJsV I% : 1QJ 1J TE H:%s1J$ s]V`I: Q$VJ1H `:1C%`V 1J : T%`@1s. `:I1C7 HMG Advance Access published July 29, 2015 Human Molecular Genetics , 2015, 1 –8 doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddv290 Advance Access Publication Date: 21 July 2015 Original Article ORIGINAL ARTICLE Exome sequencing reveals a nonsense mutation in TEX15 causing spermatogenic failure Downloaded from in a Turkish family 1,3 2,4 5 6 Ozlem Okutman , Jean Muller , Yoni Baert , Munevver Serdarogullari , http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/ Meral Gultomruk 6, Amélie Piton 2,4 , Charlotte Rombaut 5, Moncef Benkhalifa 7, Marius Teletin 1,3 , Valerie Skory 1, Emre Bakircioglu 8, Ellen Goossens 5, Mustafa Bahceci 6 and Stéphane Viville 1,3, * 1Département Génomique fonctionnelle et cancer and 2Département Médecine translationelle et neurogénétique, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Institut National de Santé et de Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U964/Centre National de Recherche Scienti fique (CNRS) UMR 7104/Université at Bogazici University Library (BOUN) on August 13, 2015 de Strasbourg, 67404 Illkirch, France, 3Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, 67000 Strasbourg, France, 4Laboratoire de diagnostic génétique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France, 5Biology of the Testis, Research Laboratory for Reproduction, Genetics and Regenerative Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium, 6Bahceci Health Group, 34365 Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey, 7Médecine de la Reproduction et Cytogénétique Médicale CHU et Faculté de Médecine, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80000 Amiens, France and 8Unimed Center, 34365 Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey *To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Département Génomique fonctionnelle et cancer, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Institut National de Santé et de Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U964/Centre National de Recherche Scienti fique (CNRS) UMR 7104/ Université de Strasbourg, 67404 Illkirch, France. Tel: +33 (0)3 88 65 33 22; Fax: +33 (0)3 88 65 32 01; Email: [email protected] Abstract Infertility is a global healthcare problem, and despite long years of assisted reproductive activities, a signi ficant number of cases remain idiopathic. Our currently restricted understanding of basic mechanisms driving human gametogenesis severely limits the improvement of clinical care for infertile patients. Using exome sequencing, we identi fied a nonsense mutation leading to a premature stop in the TEX15 locus (c.2130T>G, p.Y710*) in a consanguineous Turkish family comprising eight siblings in which three brothers were identi fied as infertile. TEX15 displays testis-speci fic expression, maps to chromosome 8, contains four exons and encodes a 2789-amino acid protein with uncertain function. The mutation, which should lead to early translational termination at the first exon of TEX15 , co-segregated with the infertility phenotype, and our data strongly suggest that it is the cause of spermatogenic defects in the family. All three affected brothers presented a phenotype reminiscent of the one observed in KO mice. Indeed, previously reported results demonstrated that disruption of the orthologous gene in mice caused a drastic reduction in testis size and meiotic arrest in the first wave of spermatogenesis in males while female KO mice were fertile. The data from our study of one Turkish family suggested that the identi fied mutation correlates with a decrease in sperm count over time. A diagnostic test identifying the mutation in man could provide an indication of spermatogenic failure and prompt patients to undertake sperm cryopreservation at an early age. Received: April 27, 2015. Revised and Accepted: July 15, 2015 © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 1 2 | Human Molecular Genetics Introduction fertile sisters (Fig. 1A), was identi fied at the Bahceci Health Group, Istanbul, Turkey. Parents were first-degree cousins. Two As attested by a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, of the infertile brothers were diagnosed as NOA (IV:1 and IV:3; infertility is a global healthcare problem. Indeed, about 48.5 mil- Fig. 1A), while the younger third infertile brother (IV:5; Fig. 1A) lion couples suffer from infertility worldwide ( 1). The cause of in- was SO with, in 2010, little sperm in the ejaculate. All affected fertility can be of female, male or mixed origin, each cause brothers presented, considering an average normal size of 18 – accounting for about one-third of all cases. 20 ml ( 22 ), a drastic testicular size reduction of more than 50% The de finition of a male factor is generally based on abnormal (Fig. 1B). Histopathology of the index patient (IV:3) identi fied a semen parameters. Semen quality is usually assessed by sperm maturation arrest at the primary spermatocyte stage (Fig. 1C). count in the ejaculate, percentage of motile sperm and morphology Brothers IV:1 and IV:3, with NOA, had a testicular sperm ex- (2). Male infertility can then be de fined as the absence of sperm in traction (TESE) operation, a limited number of spermatozoa ejaculate (azoospermia), inability to produce spermatozoa in suf fi- were detected and ICSI was performed. One embryo was trans- cient numbers (oligozoospermia, with diverse severity), inadequate ferred for both cases; transfer on Day 2 was realized for IV:1, motility (asthenozoospermia), abnormal morphology (teratozoos- while Day 3 transfer was chosen for IV:3. Transferred embryos permia) or a combination of these defects. Non-obstructive azoo- were of poor quality, and no pregnancy was obtained (Supple- Downloaded from spermia (NOA) and severe oligozoospermia (SO) are the most mentary Material, Table S1). frequent causes of male infertility in man. Unfortunately, a signi fi- Two ICSI attempts were performed for patient IV:5, the first cant number of cases remain idiopathic. The current estimate is that one with testicular sperm since no motile spermatozoa were about 30% of men seeking help at an infertility clinic are found to found in the ejaculate. A pregnancy was achieved, but resulted have oligozoospermia or azoospermia of unknown aetiology ( 3). in early abortion. Ejaculated sperm were used for the second at- So far, the only available treatment is in vitro fertilization with an tempt in 2012, and a healthy child was born. In 2014, a new http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/ intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), which represents an em- semen analysis revealed azoospermia; no spermatozoon was de- pirical approach generally offered as a standard treatment option. tected even after concentration. Spermatogenesis is an extremely complex process that in- volves highly specialized mechanisms. Considering the con- certed action of more than 2000 genes in spermatogenesis, a Whole exome sequencing and data analysis mutation in any of these genes may be responsible for a sperm- In order to identify the genetic cause of male infertility in the atic defect ( 4), and therefore, it is likely that many ‘idiopathic ’ family, whole exome sequencing (WES) was applied for samples forms may have a genetic origin. IV:1 and IV:3. For these samples, 6 and 6.7 GB DNA sequence were Recent technological improvements enable researchers to im- generated, respectively. In both the cases, >56% of the target at Bogazici University Library (BOUN) on August 13, 2015 plement whole genome approaches such as single nucleotide exome was represented with >40-fold coverage (Supplementary polymorphism (SNP) microarrays, whole genome or exome Material, Table S2). analysis for genetic testing studies. So far, the application of Given the known consanguinity in the family, we hypothe- SNP microarrays and homozygosity mapping has successfully sized that the disease should follow an autosomal recessive in- led to the identi fication of a few genes involved in infertility ( 5–9). heritance mode, and we thus tracked homozygous variants Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been per- shared by both samples. We filtered variants according to cover- formed by different groups, and a dozen gene polymorphisms age, minor allele frequency in populations (we filtered out when have been proposed to be associated with impaired spermato- >1%), validation status of the reference SNP (not validated or va- genesis ( 10 –20 ). However, associations are generally weak, and lidated by only one database) and novelty by comparing them initial results are rarely con firmed by other studies. The need to with our in-house exome database. study a very large population (>10 000) displaying phenotypic Data analysis revealed 17 homozygous variations in 15 genes homogeneity remains a major paradigm of GWAS ( 4). Therefore, shared by the two samples (Supplementary Material, Table S3). the analysis of large families of well-documented male infertility Amazonia (http://amazonia.transcriptome.eu/), BioGPS (http:// with some degree of consanguinity provides an alternative ap- biogps.org/) and EMBL-EBI expression atlases (http://www.ebi.ac. proach to identify genes involved in infertility. uk/gxa/home) were scanned for all 15 genes that passed our fil- Following up on studies of family cases of teratozoospermia and tering process. This revealed TEX15 (MIM: 605795) as the most the identi fication of two genes involved in globozoospermia ( 5,6,21 ), plausible candidate gene due to its speci fic expression in germ characterized by round-headed spermatozoa lacking an acrosome, cells and the existence of a mouse KO model with a male sterility wearenowfocussingourresearchonNOAandSO(<1 × 10 6 spermato- phenotype similar to the one observed in our patients. In particu- zoa/ml). We present here the analysis of a consanguineous Turkish lar, KO male mice presented a drastic testis size reduction and a family comprising six brothers; three infertile, two fertile, one of un- meiotic arrest ( 23 ). The human TEX15 maps to chromosome 8 known fertility status and two fertile sisters. We revealed a nonsense and consists of four exons and spans a genomic region of mutation in TEX15 , which co-segregated with the infertility pheno- 59.06 Kb on the reverse strand. The gene encodes a 2789-amino type, asthe cause of spermatogenic defects in the family. Interesting- acid protein with only two predicted unknown domains named ly, the human phenotype is very similar to the one observed in the ‘TEX15 ’ (PF15326) according to the PFAM ( 24 ) and SMART ( 25 ) da- Tex15 KOmouse. Inmice,disruptionofthegenecausesa drastic testis tabases (Fig. 3C). size reduction, as observed for the patients described here, and meiotic arrest in the first wave of spermatogenesis in males. Mutation con firmation and screening Results A homozygous single base substitution (NM_031271.3: c.2130T>G, fi Infertility phenotype p.Y710*) causes a premature stop at the rst exon of TEX15 , shared by two infertile brothers. The c.2130T>G variation, A consanguineous Turkish family comprising six brothers, three supported by 112 and 134 reads, respectively, for the samples infertile, two fertile, one of unknown fertility status and two sequenced, was not observed in any variation database. The Human Molecular Genetics | 3 Downloaded from http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/ at Bogazici University Library (BOUN) on August 13, 2015 Figure 1. Consanguineous Turkish family with eight siblings. ( A) Pedigree structure showing the segregation of c.2130T>G, p.Tyr710* mutation. Filled symbols indicate affected members, and clear symbols indicate unaffected members. One female sibling died at the age of 2, the cause of death is unknown. Asterisk (*) points out the family member for whom no information about semen analysis was available. Whole exome sequencing was performed on two affected brothers indicated with arrows. ( B) Testicular volume of affected members in the family. Normal testicular volume for man is given as 18 –20 ml 8. ( C) Testicular histology of patient IV:3. Representative sections of human left and right testes biopsies displaying maturation arrest pattern. Arrows indicate primary spermatocytes; asterisks indicate interstitial spaces. Bars represent 50 μm in length. variant and the segregation in the family were con firmed through germ line of the testis (Fig. 3B). This latter result was con firmed Sanger sequencing (Fig. 2). The mutation co-segregated with the by immunohistology on the nine testicular tissues, which infertility phenotype; the two NOA brothers and the oligozoos- showed a high level of expression in the germ line and only little permic sibling were homozygous for the mutation, while parents expression in Sertoli cells and interstitial cells (Fig. 4). These re- were carriers as well as two fertile brothers. Fertile sisters were sults are similar to those obtained in the mouse species ( 23 ). To wild type; however, the youngest brother with an unknown fertil- reinforce the hypothesis that the function of the human and ity status was also homozygous for the mutation (Fig. 1). the mouse Tex15 is similar, we compared both proteins and The mutation was absent in 107 (214 chromosomes) fertile observed a high degree of amino acid identity over the entire males of Turkish origin. In addition, all exons and intronic flank- sequence (52.46% identity; see Fig. 3C). ing sequences of TEX15 were ampli fied and sequenced in order to validate variants and to look for other mutations in 85 unrelated – individual NOA cases and 13 SO cases with similar phenotypes Case control association study (primers listed in Supplementary Material, Table S4A). No muta- Due to its known role during spermatogenesis, TEX15 was a good tions were found. candidate gene for infertility that led Aston et al . to test for a pos- sible association between infertility and six non-synonymous SNPs located in the TEX15 coding sequence ( 11 ). This case –con- Expression of TEX15 trol association study, performed in a cohort of men of European In order to determine the expression pro file of TEX15 in man, we descent with NOA, SO and control individuals, revealed a mar- performed reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT- ginal association between the major alleles of two SNPs of PCR) and immunohistology. Twenty-one total RNA samples from TEX15 , rs323344 [NM_031271.3: c.4009T>G (p.L1337V)] and different organs, including testis, and 9 testicular tissues derived rs323345 [NM_031271.3: c.3932A>G (p.N1311S)], and infertility. A from 3 Sertoli cells only, 4 maturation arrests at different stages, follow-up study conducted for these two SNPs in a European Bal- one normal and one prepubescent patient were analysed by RT- kan population failed to replicate this association ( 26 ). Chinese PCR (primers listed in Supplementary Material, Table S4B). The Han populations of NOA, SO and controls were also genotyped results con firmed the restricted expression of TEX15 to the testis for all six non-synonymous SNPs of TEX15 , and while no signi fi- (Fig. 3A) and very low levels of expression in Sertoli cells (not vis- cant association signal was obtained for rs323344 [NM_031271.3: ible on the figure). TEX15 expression was predominant in the c.4009T>G (p.L1337V)] and rs323345 [NM_031271.3: c.3932A>G 4 | Human Molecular Genetics identi fied homozygous mutation in TEX15 in three infertile brothers is the cause of a spermatogenic defect that is transmit- ted according to an autosomal recessive trait. Interestingly, the human phenotype is very similar to the one observed in the Tex15 KO mouse. In mice, disruption of the gene causes a drastic testis size reduction and meiotic arrest in the first wave of sperm- atogenesis in males. Further analysis revealed that in mice Tex15 is required for chromosomal synapsis. It regulates the loading of DNA proteins onto sites of double-strand DNA breaks, and thus its absence causes a failure in meiotic recombination ( 23 ). Inter- estingly, female KO mice were fertile. In man, we also observed a drastic testis size reduction and a meiotic maturation arrest. One major difference between the phenotype in man and in mice is that all male KO mice for Tex15 are infertile, while in the family studied here two brothers were NOA while the third one was ini- Downloaded from tially diagnosed as SO and became azoospermic with time. The youngest brother with an unknown fertility status was also homozygous for the mutation (Fig. 1). Despite a detailed explan- ation of the medical issue to the youngest brother, we were un- able to convince him to have a spermiogram, which could have prompted him to cryopreserve some of his spermatozoa. Indeed, http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/ considering that the younger infertile mutated brother was SO and he became azoospermia with time, it is likely that the pheno- type becomes more manifest with age. In both NOA patients, some foci of spermatogenesis could be found via TESE. Therefore, it remains to be established whether mutations in TEX15 correlate with a decrease in sperm count over time. Although patient IV:3 displayed a maturation arrest, a very limited number of spermatozoa were extracted in the biopsy ma- at Bogazici University Library (BOUN) on August 13, 2015 terial, but no pregnancy could be achieved after ICSI. The mosaic appearance of the testis is well established, and a single small biopsy material may not always be representative of the entire testis picture ( 28 ). In a recent study, a mosaic pattern of sperm- atogenesis was found in 13.79% of men with maturation arrest (29 ). Mutation testing of TEX15 could also be offered and possibly used as an indicator of sperm retrieval with a more detailed Figure 2. Plots of results from Sanger sequencing for mutant, carrier and wild-type search in biopsy material for patients with maturation arrest. samples. Allele in question is indicated by orange arrow. TEX15 is in the reverse Considering that the mutation introduced a premature stop strand, and mutation causes tyrosine codon (TAT) change into stop codon (TAG). codon, either it can lead to the production of a truncated protein missing 74.5% of its sequence including two predicted domains or the protein may be entirely absent due to a nonsense- (p.N1311S)], a slight association for the minor alleles of two other mediated mRNA decay. Since TEX15 protein is testis-restricted, SNPs of TEX15 , [NM_031271.3: c.3103A>G (p.I1035V)] and we could not, for ethical reasons, get access to testis biopsies per- rs323347 [NM_031271.3:c. 310T>C (p.C104R)], was detected in SO formed only for research purposes in order to verify the produc- patients ( 27 ). The major limitation of these three studies, as for tion of a truncated form of TEX15 or its absence. all association studies performed so far in the field of infertility, The identi fication and characterization of the genetic bases of resides in the phenotypic heterogeneity and the limited number male infertility have large implications not only for understand- of patients and controls analysed ( 4). In order to contribute to the ing the cause of infertility but also in determining the prognosis, analysis of the role of these SNPs in infertility, even if our cohort selection of treatment options and management of such couples. is also limited in number, we performed a case –control associ- It allows the development of a molecular diagnostic test for pa- ation study in Turkish males with NOA ( n =85) and control tients with a similar phenotype. males ( n = 107). For all four SNPs of TEX15 tested, a slight increase in the frequency of the alleles previously associated was observed, but far from being signi ficant, possibly due to the Materials and Methods small size of the cohort (results summarized in Supplementary Patient recruitment Material, Table S5). This project has been approved by the Comité de Protection de la Personne (CPP) of Strasbourg University Hospital, France (CPP 09/ Discussion 40 —WAC-2008-438 1W DC-2009-I 002), as well as by the ‘Istanbul Studying a consanguineous Turkish family, we have identi fied, University, Faculty of Medicine, Ethics committee for clinical re- using WES, a nonsense mutation in TEX15 leading in early trans- search Faculty of Medicine ’ (2012/1671-1265). A written consent lational termination in the first quarter of the protein and causing had been obtained for all participants before samples were an infertility phenotype. Our data strongly suggest that the collected. Human Molecular Genetics | 5 Downloaded from http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/ at Bogazici University Library (BOUN) on August 13, 2015 Figure 3. TEX15 expression studies at mRNA and protein levels. GADPH was used as internal control for RT-PCR, individual control without reverse transcriptase added to each sample and labelled as RT( −). ( A) RT-PCR results of TEX15 and GADPH for different human tissues. L: ladder, Agl: adrenal gland, Bm: bone marrow, CrC: brain cerebellum, BrW: brain-whole, FBr: foetal brain, Flv: foetal liver, Kd: kidney, Lv: liver, Ln: lung, Pl: placenta, Pr: prostate, Sgl: salivary gland, Sm: skeletal muscle, Spl: spleen, Thy: thymus, Ut: uterus, Cl: colon, Si: small intestine, Sc: spinal cord, Ov: ovary and Ts: testis. ( B) RT-PCR results of TEX15 and GADPH for human testicular samples with different histology. Wells 1 –9: RT(+) and Wells 10 –18: RT( −). Samples 1 –3: Sertoli cell only, samples 4 –7: maturation arrest at different stages, sample 8: normal fertile and sample 9: prepubescent. ( C) Schematic representation of exons and protein sequence of TEX15. The exonic map of TEX15 is shown in the upper part of the figure based on the RefSeq transcript (NM_031271.3). Within the four exons, the coding sequence is highlighted in grey. The protein sequence (Uniprot: Q9BXT5, TEX15_HUMAN) is represented in the lower part with the two PFAM domains as black rectangles (TEX15, PF15326). The human protein shares 52.46% identify with the mouse protein. The TEX15 domains share, respectively, 66.24 and 65.09% with the mouse protein. The nonsense mutation (c.2130T>G, p.Y710*) is highlighted in both the transcript and the protein sequence, respectively. Figure 4. Immunohistochemistry for TEX15. ( A) Positive control: mouse testis; insert: isotype control. ( B–D) Testicular tissue from three Sertoli cell only patients. No germ cells are present. ( E–H) Testicular tissue from four patients with maturation arrest. ( I) Fertile adult testicular tissue. ( J) Prepubescent testicular tissue. Germ cell nuclei are intensively stained, while most, but not all, somatic cells show faint expression. Scale bars: 50 µm. Arrow: germ cell; arrowhead: Sertoli cell. 6 | Human Molecular Genetics The family comprised six brothers; three infertile, two fertile, account the functional annotation and external data such as one of unknown fertility status and two fertile sisters. All affected the HGVS nomenclature (genomic, cDNA and proteic), dbSNP brothers had a normal karyotype, and no Y-chromosome micro- (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/), 1000Genomes (http://www. deletions were found. 1000genomes.org/) and the NHLBI Exome Variant Server (http:// A total of 85 unrelated, Turkish individual NOA cases and 13 evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS/). cases of SO were also collected. All patients were diagnosed through a complete andrological and urological diagnostic work- Mutation screening and case –control association study flow for couple infertility, as they were seeking medical assist- ance for achieving pregnancy. NOA cases were selected based The variant and the segregation in the family as well as the ab- on two spermiograms, which were performed with at least a sence of variation in healthy matched Turkish controls were con- 15 –20 days interval, and no spermatozoa were detected after con- firmed through Sanger sequencing. The identi fied mutation was centration. Similarly, SO cases were selected with a threshold of submitted to ClinVar NCBI database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. <1 × 10 6 spermatozoa/ml after semen analysis. NOA cases were gov/clinvar/). All exons and exon/intron boundaries of TEX15 sorted following histological scoring of testis biopsy. Exclusion (NM_031271.3) were ampli fied and sequenced for validating criteria were patients with mono or bilateral cryptorchidism, variants and excluding other mutations in a group of Turkish Downloaded from varicocele, previous testis trauma, mixed azoospermia (obstruct- infertile men with similar phenotypes (primers listed in Supple- ive associated with non-obstructive), recurrent infections, iatro- mentary Material, Table S4A). DNA amplicons were puri fied, and genic infertility, hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, karyotype double-strand sequencing of each DNA fragment was performed anomalies or Y chromosome micro-deletions. A total of 107 fer- by GATC (Cologne, Germany). tile Turkish males who fathered at least one child naturally For association studies between TEX15 SNPS and infertility, were included in the study as a control group. allelic distributions between control ( n = 107) and infertile ( n = 85) http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/ individuals were compared using Fisher ’s exact test (2BY2 Statis- tical Genetics Utility program, Rockfeller University, New York). DNA extraction As a DNA source, saliva samples from family members, all con- RT-PCR and immunohistology trols and SO cases were used, whereas blood samples were col- lected from individual NOA cases. Genomic DNA was extracted Total RNA samples from different human tissues were purchased from saliva using Oragene DNA self-collection kit (DNA genotek, from Clontech (BD Biosciences Clontech, Palo Alto, CA); 20 RNA Ottowa, Canada) or from peripheral blood using IPrep ™ Pure samples were included in Human Total RNA Master Panel II Link® gDNA Blood kit (Invitrogen, CA, USA), according to the (Cat. 636643), and ovary RNA was obtained from Human Ovary at Bogazici University Library (BOUN) on August 13, 2015 manufacturer ’s instructions. Total RNA (Cat. 636555). Human testicular tissue samples were obtained from adult patients undergoing a vasectomy reversal in the fertility centre Whole exome sequencing of the UZ Brussels. During surgery, a testicular tissue sample Whole exome sequencing of patients IV:1 and IV:3 (Fig. 1A) was measuring about 50 mm 3 was taken to evaluate the spermato- performed by the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular genic status. A small piece of this testicular sample was used Biology (IGBMC) microarray and sequencing platform, member of for research purposes after written informed consent. The sam- the ‘France Génomique programme ’. For this purpose, ∼1 µg DNA ple was transported to the laboratory on ice, washed to remove was sheared to 150 –200 bp with Covaris Sonolab v4.3.3 (Covaris, any residual blood and cryopreserved according to uncontrolled Woburn, MA, USA). Fragments were subjected to library prepar- slow freezing (USF) method using 1.5 M dimethylsulphoxide ation, and for each sample to be sequenced, an individual in- (DMSO) and 0.15 M sucrose as cryoprotectant ( 35 ). One piece dexed library was prepared. DNA libraries were then enriched of tissue was fixed in acetic acid/formaldehyde/alcohol (AFA) (SureSelectXT2 Target Enrichment System) and sequenced with (VWR, Belgium) for at least 1 h and transported to the anatomo- Illumina Hiseq 2500 following Illumina ’s instructions. pathology department of the UZ Brussel for subsequent fixation and embedding in paraf fin. Prepubertal tissue was obtained from a patient who under- Data processing and analysis went testicular tissue banking as part of a fertility preservation Image analysis and base calling were performed using CASAVA programme. A maximum of 10% of the biopsied tissue was do- v1.8.2 (Illumina). nated to research. One fragment of the prepubertal tissue was Bad-quality parts of reads (Phred score < 10) were trimmed off fixed in AFA, while the other fragments were cryopreserved. using SolexaQA (v.2.0) ( 30 ), and the reads were then mapped onto Human testicular tissue was thawed as described before ( 35 ). the reference genome GRCh37/hg19 using BWA (v0.7.5a) ( 31 ). Du- RNA was extracted using the RNeasy Kit (Qiagen, Venlo, The plicate reads were marked using Picard (v1.68). Realignment Netherlands) in combination with the Qiagen Shredder Kit fol- around indels and base quality recalibration were performed lowing the manufacturer ’s recommendations. On column, using GATK (v2.5-2) ( 32 ) following developer ’s recommendations. DNase treatment (RNase-free DNase Set; Qiagen) was performed Samtools (v0.1.19) ( 33 ) was used to exclude multi-mapped reads for all the samples. The total amount of RNA was measured with from downstream analysis. Variant calling was done using GATK a NanoDrop spectrophotometer ND-1000 (NanoDrop Technolo- Uni fiedGenotyper (v2.5-2) ( 32 ). Variant quality score recalibration gies, Inc., Wilmington, DE). The RNA was then stored at −80°C was done using GATK (v2.5-2) ( 32 ) to assign a well-calibrated for later use. probability to each variant call in a call set. cDNA synthesis was done according to the Invitrogen proto- Detected variants were ranked by VaRank ( 34 ), which incorpo- col starting from 1 µg RNA for pooled human tissue and 40 pg rates the annotations retrieved by the Alamut Batch software RNA for testicular tissue samples. DNase treatment was applied (Interactive Biosoftware, France) as well as allele frequency to each reaction in order to remove DNA contamination. Same from our internal exome database. The annotation took into samples were ampli fied in parallel with primers for the control Human Molecular Genetics | 7 housekeeping gene GADPH (MIM 138400), and individual controls 3. 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