Journal
ANDROLOGIA
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/and.13239
Keywords
imprinted gene; methylation; sperm DNA damage
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- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LQ16H040003]
- Wenzhou Science & technological Project [Y20140728]
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Abnormal imprinted genes methylation in spermatozoa has been shown to be associated with subfertility. However, the relationship between sperm DNA damage and specific imprinted genes methylation remains unclear. In this study, DNA methylation levels were determined at seven imprinted genes loci (H19, INS-IGF2, KCNQ1, MEG3, MEST, PEG3 and SNRPN) in 66 semen samples using the MSRE-qPCR method. The semen samples were divided into two groups according to the threshold value (25%) of DNA fragmentation index (DFI). We found that the mean methylation level at IGF2 (cg17037101) in the group with DFI = 25% was lower than that in the group with DFI < 25% (13.7 +/- 3% vs. 31.5 +/- 5.3%, p = 0.0053). However, the methylation levels of other CpGs did not differ from the imprinted genes. Correlation analysis of DFI with the methylation levels of imprinted genes demonstrated that the IGF2 (cg17037101) methylation level was negatively correlated with sperm DFI (r = -0.448, p = 0.0038), and the KCNQ1 (cg24932449) methylation level was positively correlated with sperm DFI (r = 0.354, p = 0.0273). Our results suggest that the aberrant methylation of IGF2 and KCNQ1 genes may be associated with sperm DNA damage.
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