Dr. Laan a long-time collaborator on the GEMINI project. She is a professor of Human Genetics at the University of Tartu, Estonia and comes to us through a scholarship from the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation

University of Zagreb School of Medicine and Columbia University Irving Medical Center are represented by Davor Jezek, MD, PhD and Joseph P. Alukal, MD, respectively. Welcome to both teams!

The study lead by Estonian collaborators demonstrated that mutation in the FANCM gene on chromosome 14q21 causes non-obstructive azoospermia, with a Sertoli cell-only phenotype observed in testicular tissue. The finding resulted in Spermatogenic failure 28 being added to the OMIM database (ID #618086).