Male fertility gene found!
April 8, 2009 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Health
Some men have more success than others in producing children, genetically speaking, that is.
Large European family, circa 1950s.
New findings have identified a gene that endows some men more reproductive prowess than their neighbor, according to an article by The Scientist. And the secret is a switch in amino acids within one gene – from an amino acid called methionine to valine.
Carole Ober of the University of Chicago, presented her findings at the Sackler Colloquium on Evolution in Health and Medicine in Washington, DC and she found that “men who carried two copies of the valine allele were 2.6 times more likely to conceive than men with two copies of the methionine allele at the same locus”. Man, that’s double the advantage!
The gene in the spotlight? CFTR, or cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene, where a mutation results in cystic fibrosis and male infertility.
Check out the complete article at The Scientist. You have to sign up to view the magazine, but I think the content is worth it.
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