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Table 6 Variants of TEX genes identified solely in males with azoospermia and/or infertility

From: Human testis-expressed (TEX) genes: a review focused on spermatogenesis and male fertility

TEX gene

Study

Nucleotide change

Protein change

Type of mutation

Exon/intron

Number of males with the alteration

TEX11

Krausz et al., 2020 [15]

c.84_651del

p.28del189aa

deletion

Exon 4–9

1

Cannarella et al., 2020 [16]

c.776C → T

p.Thr259Ile

missense mutation

Exon 9

1

c.2288 T → C

p.Val763Ala

missense mutation

Exon 26

1

Sha et al., 2018 [17]

c.2653G → T

p.W856C

missense mutation

Exon 29

2 brothers

Nakamura et al., 2017 [18]

c.511A → G

p.Met171Val

missense mutation

Exon 8

1

Yatsenko et al., 2015 [19]

c.450C → T

p.A150A

splicing mutation

Exon 7

1

c.511A → G

p.M171V

missense mutation

Exon 8

1

c.652del237bp

p.218del79aa

deletion

Exons 10–12

2

c.792 + 1G → A

p.L264spl d

splicing mutation

Intron 11

1

c.1837 + 1G → C

p.R612spl d

splicing mutation

Intron 22

1

c.2092G → A

p.A698T

missense mutation

Exon 25

1

Yang et al., 2015 [20]

c.-17 T → C

/

intronic alteration

Intron 3

1

c.-48G → A

/

intronic alteration

Intron 5

1

c.349 T → A

p.W117R

missense mutation

Exon 6

1

c.405C → T

/

silent mutation

Exon 6

1

c.424G → A

p.V142I

missense mutation

Exon 7

1

c.466A → G

p.M152V

missense mutation

Exon 7

1

c.515A → G

p.Q172R

missense mutation

Exon 7

1

c.731C → T

p.T244I

missense mutation

Exon 10

1

c. + 42C → A

/

intronic alteration

Intron 10

1

c.-28 T → C

/

intronic alteration

Intron 12

1

c.-64G → A

/

intronic alteration

Intron 15

1

c.1258Ins (TT)

1258GATG → TTGGTA

frameshift mutation

Exon 16

1

c. + 16A → G

/

intronic alteration

Intron 20

1

c.-1G → A

/

alteration of splicing acceptor site

Intron 21

1

c.-37A → G

/

intronic alteration

Intron 22

1

c.-44C → T

/

intronic alteration

Intron 23

1

c. + 119G → A

/

intronic alteration

Intron 24

1

c.2243 T → C

p.V748A

missense mutation

Exon 26

1

c.2319 T → C

/

silent mutation

Exon 27

1

c.-55A → C

/

intronic alteration

Intron 27

1

c.-44A → G

/

intronic alteration

Intron 28

1

TEX14

Krausz et al., 2020 [15]

c.(554 + 1_555–1)_(3378 + 1_3378–1)del

p.185del941aa

partial deletion

Exon 6–21

1 compound heterozygote

c.2303_2306del

p.Gln768ArgfsTer31

frameshift deletion

Exon 14

c.3454C > T

p.Arg1152Ter

stop gain

Exon 21

1

Araujo et al., 2019 [21]

c.727C > G

p.Gln243Glu

missense mutation

Exon 7

1 compound heterozygote

c.4297G > A

p.Glu1433Lys

missense mutation

Exon 31

Fakhro et al., 2018 [22]

c.C254A

p.Arg85Leu

missense mutation

/

2 brothers

c.555-5 T > G

/

splice site mutation

/

1

/

p.Ser1255fs

frameshift mutation

/

1

Gershoni et al., 2017 [23]

c.2668-2678del

early stop codon

frameshift deletion

Exon 16

2 brothers

TEX15

Cannarella et al., 2020 [16]

c.7118G > A

p.Ser2373Asn

missense mutation

Exon 8

1

Araujo et al., 2019 [21]

c.7118G > A

p.Ser2373Asn

missense mutation

Exon 8

1 compound heterozygote

c.9223G > A

p.Gly3075Arg

missense mutation

Exon 10

Wang et al., 2018 [24]

c.6934G > A

p.R2312X

nonsense mutation

Exon 1

1

Colombo et al., 2017 [25]

c.2419A > T

p.Lys807*

nonsense mutation

Exon 8

2: brothers (compound heterozygotes)

c.3040delT

p.Ser1014Leufs*5

deletion

Exon 8

Okutman et al., 2015 [26]

c.2130 T > G

p.Y710*

nonsense mutation

Exon 1

3 brothers