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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 99, 期 3, 页码 744-752出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.06.024
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFC1000600]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB943300]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81270747, 81571501, 81571506]
Early embryonic arrest is one of the major causes of female infertility. However, because of difficulties in phenotypic evaluation, genetic determinants of human early embryonic arrest are largely unknown. With the development of assisted reproductive technology, the phenotype of early human embryonic arrest can now be carefully evaluated. Here, we describe a consanguineous family with a recessive inheritance pattern of female infertility characterized by recurrent early embryonic arrest in cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). We have identified a homozygous PADI6 nonsense mutation (c.1141C>T [p.G1n381*]) that is responsible for the phenotype. Mutational analysis of PADI6 in a cohort of 36 individuals whose embryos displayed developmental arrest identified two affected individuals with compound-heterozygous mutations (c.2009_2010del [p.G1u670Glyfs*48] and c.633T>A [p.His211G1n]; c.1618G>A [p.Gly540Arg] and c.970C>T [p.G1n3241). Immunostaining indicated a lack of PADI6 in affected individuals' oocytes. In addition, the amount of phosphorylated RNA polymerase II and expression levels of seven genes involved in zygotic genome activation were reduced in the affected individuals' embryos. This phenotype is consistent with Padi6 knockout mice. These findings deepen our understanding of the genetic basis of human early embryonic arrest, which has been a largely ignored Mendelian phenotype. Our findings lay the foundation for uncovering other genetic causes of infertility resulting from early embryonic arrest.
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