Lack of evidence for a role of PIWIL1 variants in human male infertility

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr. Martin Jager, Prof. Peter Robinson, Laurens van de Wiel, Roos Smits, and Godfried van der Heijden for discussions, advice, and comments. This work was supported by a VICI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (918-15-667 to J.A.V.), an Investigator Award in Science from the Wellcome Trust (209451 to J.A.V.), the German Research Foundation (DFG) Clinical Research Unit (CRU326) 'Male Germ Cells' (to F.T.), the National Institutes of Health (R01HD078641 to D.F.C. and K.I.A.), and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (to M.K.O.B., R.I.M.L., J.V., K.I.A., and D.F.C.).