Aneuploidy in spermatozoa detected by FISH. Comparison with sperm chromosome data obtained via hamster system
- Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) with two-color and cocktail DNA probes was used to assess the rates of aneuploidy for the X,Y and 18 chromosomes in 3 male donors. (Experiment 1). These individuals had previously been studied with the hamster system and published. Experiment 2 was designed in order to compare aneuploidy rates for chromosome 18 in donor 2 in conjunction with chromosome 6 and 12 as an internal control. (1) Aneuploidy for the sex chromosomes in the hamster system was 0.5 for Donor 1 and 0.7 (3) which was very similar to 0.49 (1) and 0.41 (3) found in this experiment. However, Donor 2 showed a lower rate of sex non-disjunction with this system: 0.18 vs. 0.7 with the hamster system. (2) Diploidy rates are in the same ranges in experiments 1 and 2. (3) If autosome aneuploidy rates are extrapolated to 22 chromosomes, the following values are found: Donor 1:2.42 (vs. 2.0 in the hamster system); donor 3:2.2 (vs. 1.34 with the hamster system) and donor 2:1.32 which is lower than 4.32 found with the hamster system. More data needs to be collected on the use of FISH for this study of aneuploides in sperm cells and attention needs to be paid to the different types of probes used for validation of results.
- OSTI ID:
- 133673
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0403
- Journal Information:
- American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 55, Issue Suppl.3; Conference: 44. annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Montreal (Canada), 18-22 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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