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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fgene.2023.1187445</article-id>
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<article-title>Editorial: Genetic factors in male infertility</article-title>
<alt-title alt-title-type="left-running-head">He et al.</alt-title>
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<surname>He</surname>
<given-names>Xiaojin</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<surname>Yang</surname>
<given-names>Shenmin</given-names>
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<surname>Lv</surname>
<given-names>Mingrong</given-names>
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<institution>Reproductive Medicine Center</institution>, <institution>Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology</institution>, <institution>The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University</institution>, <addr-line>Hefei</addr-line>, <country>China</country>
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<institution>Center for Reproduction and Genetics</institution>, <institution>Suzhou Municipal Hospital Suzhou</institution>, <institution>Gusu School</institution>, <institution>The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University</institution>, <institution>Nanjing Medical University</institution>, <addr-line>Suzhou</addr-line>, <country>China</country>
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<bold>Edited and reviewed by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/986328/overview">Maxim B. Freidin</ext-link>, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom</p>
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<corresp id="c001">&#x2a;Correspondence: Xiaojin He, <email>hxj0117@126.com</email>
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<p>This article was submitted to Human and Medical Genomics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Genetics</p>
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<day>05</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<year>2023</year>
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<volume>14</volume>
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<day>16</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<day>27</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#xa9; 2023 He, Yang and Lv.</copyright-statement>
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<related-article id="RA1" related-article-type="commentary-article" journal-id="Front. Genet." xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/39124" ext-link-type="uri">Editorial on the Research Topic <article-title>Genetic factors in male infertility</article-title> </related-article>
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<kwd>male infertility</kwd>
<kwd>teratozoospermia</kwd>
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<p>Our Research Topic is &#x201c;Genetic Factors in Male Infertility&#x201d; and the goal of this Research Topic is to collect more papers on the aspect of identifying different gene variants and various types of RNAs mainly focused on male infertility including azoospermia, oligozoospermia, teratozoospermia, and asthenozoospermia. In order to achieve this goal, we carefully reviewed every submitted manuscript and screened for highly qualified reviewers. Eventually, we accepted and published seven articles including four &#x201c;Original Research&#x201d; articles, one &#x201c;Brief Research Report&#x201d; article, one &#x201c;Case Report&#x201d; article, and one &#x201c;Review&#x201d;. These articles covered the genetic factors of non-obstructive azoospermia and teratozoospermia and the clinical outcomes of men with non-mosaic Klinefelter syndrome (KS). <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1017302/full">Xie et.al</ext-link> identify a homozygous missense variant in <italic>DND1</italic> that causes non-obstructive azoospermia in humans (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1017302/full">Xie et.al</ext-link>). <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2023.1117821/full">Aprea et.al.</ext-link> identify the pathogenic gene variants in <italic>CCDC39</italic>, <italic>CCDC40</italic>, <italic>RSPH1</italic>, <italic>RSPH9</italic>, <italic>HYDIN,</italic> and <italic>SPEF2</italic> that cause defects of sperm flagella composition and male infertility. They find that immunofluorescence microscopy in sperm cells is a valuable tool to identify flagellar defects related to the axonemal ruler, radial spoke head, and the central pair apparatus (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2023.1117821/full">Aprea et.al.</ext-link>). <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.988202/full">Yuan et al.</ext-link> finds a Gly684Ala substitution in the androgen receptor that causes azoospermia (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.988202/full">Yuan et al.</ext-link>) and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1035468/full">Fang et al.</ext-link> reports the phenotypic findings and genetic considerations of congenital absence of the vas deferens with hypospadias or without hypospadias: (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1035468/full">Fang et al.</ext-link>), which might advance the genetic diagnosis and clinical genetic counseling for male infertility. <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1010568/full">Zhu et al.</ext-link> also verifies that FISH could analyze numerical chromosomal abnormalities in the sperm of Robertsonian translocation der (13; 14) (q10; q10) carriers (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1010568/full">Zhu et al.</ext-link>). Moreover, <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1034951/full">Wang et.al</ext-link> review various phenotypes resulting from different pathogenic genes, including sperm ultrastructure and encoding proteins with their location and functions as well as assisted reproductive technology outcomes, providing additional clinical views and broadening the understanding of this disease (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1034951/full">Wang et.al</ext-link>). Finally, <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.989701/full">Xu et al.</ext-link> reports a case of the birth of a boy after intracytoplasmic sperm injection using ejaculated spermatozoa from a non-mosaic KS man with normal sperm motility, which increases our knowledge of non-mosaic KS (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.989701/full">Xu et al.</ext-link>). The findings in these studies broaden our understanding of genetic factors in male infertility and were also included in our Research Topic scope.</p>
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<p>XH generally directs and modifies the manuscript of the editorial. SY and ML wrote it.</p>
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