PINK1 and PGAM5 are known to play essential roles in maintaining mitochondrial integrity and homeostasis and have been linked to both Parkinson’s disease and defects of spermatogenesis (Valente et al., 2004; Lu et al., 2014; Agarwal et al., 2020; Deng et al., 2008). Here, PGAM5 is linked to Parkinson disease.