title: Comment on "Absence of sperm RNA elements correlates with idiopathic male infertility".
abstract: The spermatozoal population used for a recent RNA sequencing study may have been contaminated by somatic cell types because of an inefficient sperm purification procedure.
authors: Department of Andrology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
authors: Heike
authors: H
authors: Cappallo-Obermann
authors: Department of Andrology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. a.spiess@uke.de.
authors: Andrej-Nikolai
authors: AN
authors: Spiess
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male; D008297:Male; D012313:RNA; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D013094:Spermatozoa
chemical_list: D012313:RNA