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spermatogenic failure 46

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A spermatogenic failure characterized by male infertility due to asthenoteratozoospermia with multiple morphologic abnormalities of the flagella and disorganization of the axonemal and periaxonemal structures that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound h

A spermatogenic failure characterized by male infertility due to asthenoteratozoospermia with multiple morphologic abnormalities of the flagella and disorganization of the axonemal and periaxonemal structures that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the DNAH8 gene on chromosome 6p21.2.

Signs and symptoms

  • Irregularly shaped sperm tail
  • Coiled sperm flagella
  • Male infertility
  • Reduced sperm motility
  • Absent sperm flagella
  • Short sperm flagella

Also known as: SPGF46