MICRODELEÇÕES DA REGIÃO AZF (YQ11) DE DESCENDENTES POR PATRILINHAGEM DE HOMENS INFÉRTEIS

Abstract

Male infertility is under a difficult condition of treatment, because it is not a single entity, but reflecting a variety of different pathological conditions, preventing a unique strategy of treatment. Structural changes in Y chromosome have been responsible for male infertility. We examined 26 family members of 13 patients with male infertility and had deletions in the AZF region. In the family 01, a father and a brother did not present a microdeletion. However, one son present a microdeletion in AZFa (sY84) and spermogram azoospermic but the another son present a microdeletion in AZFa (sY84) and AZFb (sY127) and a normal spermogram. The father of the family 02, a severe oligozoospermic man, presented a microdeletion in AZFa (sY84) and his son, conceived by ICSI process, also presented the same microdeletion. In the other families, only the men with changed spermogram had presented the microdeletion. Probably, in family 01, the father and the brother without microdeletions can to present microdeletions of previous or posterior regions to that one analyzed. The treatment with ICSI can lead to the vertical transmission of microdeletions in AZF region and also it can cause in the expansion of the mutation de novo . This result reinforces the need for an investigation of Y chromosome microdeletion in individual candidates for assisted reproduction, as well as a tracking genetic counseling.