Paternal USP26 Mutations Raise Klinefelter Syndrome Risk in the Offspring of Mice and Humans

ABSTRACT: Current understanding holds that Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is not inherited, but arises randomly during meiosis. Whether there is any genetic basis for the origin of KS is unknown. Here, guided by our identification of some USP26 variations apparently associated with KS, we found that knockout of Usp26 in male mice resulted in production of 41, XXY offspring. USP26 protein is localized at the XY body, and the disruption of Usp26 causes incomplete sex chromosome pairing by destabilizing TEX11. The unpaired sex chromosomes then result in XY aneuploid spermatozoa. Consistent with our mouse results, a clinical study shows that some USP26 variations increase the proportion of XY aneuploid sperm in fertile men, and we identified two families with KS offspring wherein the father of the KS patient

SUBMITTER: Chao Liu 

PROVIDER: S-SCDT-EMBOJ-2020-106864 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other