Research ArticleHuman Genetics
A Common Mutation in the Defensin DEFB126 Causes Impaired Sperm Function and Subfertility
- Theodore L. Tollner1,*,
- Scott A. Venners2,*,
- Edward J. Hollox3,
- Ashley I. Yudin4,
- Xue Liu5,
- Genfu Tang5,
- Houxun Xing5,
- Robert J. Kays6,
- Tsang Lau6,
- James W. Overstreet4,
- Xiping Xu7,
- Charles L. Bevins6,* and
- Gary N. Cherr8,*,†
- 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA.
- 2Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
- 3Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH Leicester, UK.
- 4Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
- 5Institute for Biomedicine, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 0551-5161014, China.
- 6Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
- 7School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
- 8Departments of Environmental Toxicology and Nutrition, Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
- ↵†To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gncherr{at}ucdavis.edu
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Science Translational Medicine 20 Jul 2011:
Vol. 3, Issue 92, pp. 92ra65
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002289
