| 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 |