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. 2026 Sep 19;15(18):7281. doi: 10.3390/jcm15187281
ACMG/AMP American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics/Association for Molecular Pathology
AD Autosomal dominant
AR Autosomal recessive
ART Assisted reproductive technologies
AUA/ASRM American Urological Association/American Society for Reproductive Medicine
AZF Azoospermia factor
CBAVD Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens
CHH Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
CI Confidence interval
ClinGen Clinical Genome Resource
CNV Copy-number variant
CRISPR/Cas9 Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9
DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid
DSB DNA double-strand break
FSH Follicle-stimulating hormone
GDR Gene-disease relationship
gnomAD Genome Aggregation Database
GnRH Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
ICSI Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
IMIGC International Male Infertility Genomics Consortium
LOEUF Loss-of-function observed/expected upper bound fraction
LRS Long-read sequencing
Micro-TESE Microdissection testicular sperm extraction
MMAF Multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella
NGS Next-generation sequencing
NOA Non-obstructive azoospermia
OA Obstructive azoospermia
OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
PCR Polymerase chain reaction
pLI Probability of loss-of-function intolerance
SNV Single-nucleotide variant
STS-PCR Sequence-tagged site polymerase chain reaction
TESE Testicular sperm extraction
VUS Variant of uncertain significance
WES Whole-exome sequencing
WGS Whole-genome sequencing
XL X-linked