Conditions / Genetic

spermatogenic failure 38

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A spermatogenic failure characterized by multiple morphologic abnormalities of the flagella resulting in infertility and asthenoteratozoospermia that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the ARMC2 gene on chromosome 6q21.

Signs and symptoms

  • Tapered sperm head
  • Coiled sperm flagella
  • Male infertility
  • Reduced sperm motility
  • Abnormal axonemal organization of respiratory motile cilia
  • Oligozoospermia
  • Absent sperm flagella
  • Abnormal sperm head morphology

Also known as: SPGF38