Implications of cell cycle disturbances for meiotic aneuploidy: Studies on a mouse model system
- Universitaet Bielefeld (United Kingdom)
The correlation between increased risk of aneuploid offspring with maternal age in the human and some other mammals has been documented by a number of studies in the last decades. With the advent of chromosome banding and molecular cytogenetic techniques using restriction fragment length polymorphisms to identify the origin of extra chromosomes in trisomic conditions, data have accumulated which indicate that most non-disjunction events leading to chromosomally unbalanced gametes and embryos occur during first meiotic division of maturation in the oocyte. Among others, hypotheses relating a reduction in recombination and chiasmata with increased risks for aneuploidy, or such relating hormonal imbalance, alterations in follicular pH or environmental disturbances with aberrations in chromosomal constitution and spindle components have been proposed but the cellular and physiological basis for chromosome malsegregation with increased age still remains elusive. Here we review studies in which the CBA/Ca mouse was used as a model system to analyze spindle structure and formation, chromosome behavior and progression through the cell cycle with regard to extrinsic and intrinsic factors, as well as to age and aneuploidy, respectively, to identify risk factors. The data indicate that disturbances in cell cycle progression are correlated with high risk for aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes. These disturbances may reside in altered protein phosphorylation and gene expression.
- OSTI ID:
- 28441
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9210475-Cond.; TRN: 95:001845-0015
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: NATO advanced research workshop, Crete (Greece), 10-15 Oct 1992; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Chromosome segregation and aneuploidy; Vig, B.K. [ed.] [University of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States). Dept. of Biology]; PB: 429 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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