Lack of evidence for a role of PIWIL1 variants in human male infertility

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Human Genetics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• ² Scientific Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Riga Stradins University, LV-1007, Riga, Latvia.
• ³ Institute of Reproductive Genetics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical and Surgical Andrology, Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
• ⁵ Division of Genetics, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
• ⁶ School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia; School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁷ Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁸ Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ⁹ Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Electronic address: joris.veltman@newcastle.ac.uk.