cellular
• Incomplete DNA repair at double stranded breaks in pachytene spermatocytes and the genomic locations of the double stranded breaks is abnormal
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• arrest at the late-zygotene to early pachytene stage, with an increased proportion of leptotene and zygotene and absence of normal pachytene and diplotene spermatocytes, with the pachytene cells having H2AX phosphorylation and incomplete synapsis
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• At 12 days of age spermatocytes show a decrease in epigenomic modification at recombination hotspots, H3K4me3 and chromatin accessibility sites at recombination hotspots are decreased
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endocrine/exocrine glands
reproductive system
• Incomplete DNA repair at double stranded breaks in pachytene spermatocytes and the genomic locations of the double stranded breaks is abnormal
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• arrest at the late-zygotene to early pachytene stage, with an increased proportion of leptotene and zygotene and absence of normal pachytene and diplotene spermatocytes, with the pachytene cells having H2AX phosphorylation and incomplete synapsis
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• At 12 days of age spermatocytes show a decrease in epigenomic modification at recombination hotspots, H3K4me3 and chromatin accessibility sites at recombination hotspots are decreased
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• these males fail to sire offspring
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