期刊
JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS
卷 32, 期 11, 页码 1685-1690出版社
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0574-3
关键词
Telomeres; Human spermatozoa; In vitro fertilization; Sperm morphology; Paternal age
资金
- CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil
- NYU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at NYU [NIH] [1UL1RR029893]
The effect of age on telomere length heterogeneity in men has not been studied previously. Our aims were to determine the relationship between variation in sperm telomere length (STL), men's age, and semen parameters in spermatozoa from men undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. To perform this prospective cross-sectional pilot study, telomere length was estimated in 200 individual spermatozoa from men undergoing IVF treatment at the NYU Fertility Center. A novel single-cell telomere content assay (SCT-pqPCR) measured telomere length in individual spermatozoa. Telomere length among individual spermatozoa within an ejaculate varies markedly and increases with age. Older men not only have longer STL but also have more variable STL compared to younger men. STL from samples with normal semen parameters was significantly longer than that from samples with abnormal parameters, but STL did not differ between spermatozoa with normal versus abnormal morphology. The marked increase in STL heterogeneity as men age is consistent with a role for ALT during spermatogenesis. No data have yet reported the effect of age on STL heterogeneity. Based on these results, future studies should expand this modest sample size to search for molecular evidence of ALT in human testes during spermatogenesis.
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