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Whole-exome or whole-genome sequencing is becoming routine in clinical situations for identifying mutations underlying presumed genetic causes of disease including infertility. While this is a powerful approach for implicating polymorphisms or de novo mutations in genes plausibly related to the phenotype, a greater challenge is to definitively prove causality. This is a crucial requisite for treatment, especially for infertility, in which validation options are limited. In this study, we created a mouse model of a putative infertility allele, DMC1M200V. DMC1 encodes a RecA homolog essential for meiotic recombination and fertility in mice. This allele was originally implicated as being responsible for the sterility of a homozygous African woman, a conclusion supported by subsequent biochemical analyses of the mutant protein and by studies of yeast with the orthologous amino acid change. Here, we found that Dmc1M200V/M200V male and female mice are fully fertile and do not exhibit any gonadal abnormalities. Detailed immunocytological analysis of meiosis revealed no defects suggestive of compromised fertility. This study serves as a cautionary tale for making conclusions about consequences of genetic variants, especially with respect to infertility, and emphasizes the importance of conducting relevant biological assays for making accurate diagnoses in the era of genomic medicine.

A putative human infertility allele of the meiotic recombinase DMC1 does not affect fertility in mice