Table 4.

LncRNAs with a potential role in varicocele-related infertility, according to publications studying the expression profiles of lncRNAs, and study characteristics.

LncRNAs	Reference	Methodology	Samples	Tissue	Change of expression
MIR210HG	Ataabadi et al. (2020) [38]	RNA sequencing, qPCR	25 infertile men with varicocele, 17 fertile men as controls	Semen	Upregulation in patients
	Li et al. (2022) [28]	qPCR	188 VC patients, 92 healthy men	Seminal plasma	Upregulation in patients
MLLT4-AS1	Ataabadi et al. (2020) [38]	RNA sequencing, qPCR	25 infertile men with varicocele, 17 fertile men as controls	Semen	Upregulation in patients
GADD7	Zhao et al. (2017) [40]	qPCR	56 patients with varicocele, 28 healthy controls	Semen	Upregulated in patients
SLC7A11-AS1 (isoform 6)	Sanei-Ataabadi, Mowla and Nasr-Esfahani, (2020) [34]	qPCR	25 individuals with varicocele, 17 healthy donors with normal semen parameters	Semen	Upregulated in patients