Testis transcriptome analysis in male infertility: new insight on the pathogenesis of oligo-azoospermia in cases with and without AZFc microdeletion

Table 1 Testis phenotype of the investigated patients and number of micorarray experiments.

Patients classification	Semen analysis	Testis histology (Johnsen score)	Patient ID	Microarray experiments
Idiopathic SCOS	Azoospermia	SCOS (2)	1	1
Idiopathic HS	≤ 1 × 10⁶/ml	Severe HS (8)	2	3
			3	2
			4	1
			5	1
			6	1
			7	1
AZFc microdeletion SCOS	Azoospermia	SCOS (2)	8	4
			9	2
AZFc microdeletion HS	≤ 1 × 10⁶/ml	Severe HS (8)	10	1
			11	1
			12	2
			13	3
Obstructive azoospermia	Azoospermia	Normal spermatogenesis (10)	14	1
			15	1
			16	1
Total microarray experiments				26

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