Isodicentric Y chromosomes and secondary microchromosomes.

We report here on two mosaic patients with both an idic(Yp) and a microchromosome. FISH with the DYZ3 alphoid repeat demonstrated that the isodicentrics effectively exhibited two alphoid clusters whereas the small markers had a Y-centromere. These data, along with 4 previous observations, indicate t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Rivera, Horacio, Ayala Madrigal, Laura Margarita, Gutiérrez Angulo, Melva, Vasquez, Al, Ramos, AL
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:México
Institución:Universidad de Guadalajara
Repositorio:Repositorio UDG CUALTOS
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.cualtos.udg.mx:123456789/417
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.cualtos.udg.mx:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/417
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:isodicentric
Y-chromosomes
microchromosomes
functional dicentricity
centromere excision
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Sumario:We report here on two mosaic patients with both an idic(Yp) and a microchromosome. FISH with the DYZ3 alphoid repeat demonstrated that the isodicentrics effectively exhibited two alphoid clusters whereas the small markers had a Y-centromere. These data, along with 4 previous observations, indicate that such microchromosomes effectively result from functional dicentricity of isodicentric Y-chromosomes and represent the excision of one centromere plus various amounts of adjacent chromatin. Other than a real infrequency of such a concurrence or a very low proportion of the cell line(s) containing the microchromosome, the paucity of observations points to a high rate of underdiagnosis as revealed by two idic(Y) instances in which the microchromosome was detected only in samples assessed by FISH.