Identification of meiotic anomalies with multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization
To characterize meiotic anomalies in infertile men by multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization (M-FISH) and to determine whether synaptic problems affect specific bivalents or whether anomalies are random. Analysis of meiotic preparations with standard techniques and M-FISH. Assisted reproductio...
| Autores: | , , , , |
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:288845 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/288845 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.02.122 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Meiosis Chromosome reorganizations Multiplex FISH Synaptic anomalies |
| Resumo: | To characterize meiotic anomalies in infertile men by multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization (M-FISH) and to determine whether synaptic problems affect specific bivalents or whether anomalies are random. Analysis of meiotic preparations with standard techniques and M-FISH. Assisted reproduction centers and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Three fertile men undergoing vasectomy, four sterile patients with oligoasthenoteratozoospermia, and one patient with a Robertsonian translocation t(13;14). Unilateral testicular biopsy in controls and patients with oligoasthenoteratozoospermia and collection of a semen sample from the translocation carrier. Identification of bivalents in metaphase I and chromosomes in metaphase II and characterization of chromosome abnormalities. All bivalents in metaphase I and all chromosomes in metaphase II could be identified. In controls and in one patient with oligoasthenoteratozoospermia, meiosis was normal. Other patients with oligoasthenoteratozoospermia showed different types of anomaly: desynapsis, breaks, precocious XY separation, or cryptic reorganizations. The Robertsonian translocation t(13;14) was easily identified. Results confirm the high incidence of synaptic errors in oligoasthenoteratozoospermia patients. Bivalents in metaphase I and chromosomes in metaphase II were individually identifiable. Nondisjunctional errors or small reorganizations overlooked in classic meiotic preparations were identified. Synaptic anomalies seem to affect meiotic bivalents at random. © 2004 by American Society for Reproductive Medicine. |
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