TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of non-crossover bivalents in pachytene cells from 10 normal men
AU - Sun, Fei
AU - Oliver-Bonet, M.
AU - Liehr, T.
AU - Starke, H.
AU - Turek, P.
AU - Ko, E.
AU - Rademaker, A.
AU - Martin, R. H.
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - Background: Bivalents with no recombination foci (possible achiasmates) are unable to orient properly on the metaphase plate or to segregate chromosomes to daughter cells. Non-crossover bivalents are known to cause meiotic arrest in various organisms. Methods: Individual non-cros sover bivalents were identified in 886 pachytene cells (19 492 bivalents) from testicular biopsies of 10 normal men. Fluorescence staining combined with centromere-specific multicolour fluorescence in situ hybridization (cenM-FISH) was used to identify mismatch repair gene mutation of human mutL homologue 1 (MLH1) recombination foci along each bivalent synaptonemal complex (SC). Results: A total of 60 autosomal non-crossovers (SCs without an MLH1 focus) were found, and of these, chromosomes 21 (2.1%) and 22 (1.7%) had a significantly higher proportion than chromosomes 11, 12, 19 (each 0.1%), 13 (0.2%), 14 (0.6%), 16 (0.5%) and 15, 17, 18, 20 (each 0.3%) (P < 0.05). Sex chromosome univalents had a frequency of 27%, higher than that observed in any autosomal bivalent (P < 0.0001). Conclusions: These results suggest that G-group chromosomes and sex chromosomes are most susceptible to having no recombination foci and thus would be more susceptible to non-disjunction during spermatogenesis. This is consistent with previous observations from sperm karyotyping and FISH analysis, which demonstrate that chromosomes 21 and 22 and the sex chromosomes have a significantly increased frequency of aneuploidy compared with other autosomes.
AB - Background: Bivalents with no recombination foci (possible achiasmates) are unable to orient properly on the metaphase plate or to segregate chromosomes to daughter cells. Non-crossover bivalents are known to cause meiotic arrest in various organisms. Methods: Individual non-cros sover bivalents were identified in 886 pachytene cells (19 492 bivalents) from testicular biopsies of 10 normal men. Fluorescence staining combined with centromere-specific multicolour fluorescence in situ hybridization (cenM-FISH) was used to identify mismatch repair gene mutation of human mutL homologue 1 (MLH1) recombination foci along each bivalent synaptonemal complex (SC). Results: A total of 60 autosomal non-crossovers (SCs without an MLH1 focus) were found, and of these, chromosomes 21 (2.1%) and 22 (1.7%) had a significantly higher proportion than chromosomes 11, 12, 19 (each 0.1%), 13 (0.2%), 14 (0.6%), 16 (0.5%) and 15, 17, 18, 20 (each 0.3%) (P < 0.05). Sex chromosome univalents had a frequency of 27%, higher than that observed in any autosomal bivalent (P < 0.0001). Conclusions: These results suggest that G-group chromosomes and sex chromosomes are most susceptible to having no recombination foci and thus would be more susceptible to non-disjunction during spermatogenesis. This is consistent with previous observations from sperm karyotyping and FISH analysis, which demonstrate that chromosomes 21 and 22 and the sex chromosomes have a significantly increased frequency of aneuploidy compared with other autosomes.
KW - Aneuploidy
KW - MLH1
KW - Non-crossover bivalent
KW - Pachytene spermatocytes
KW - Synaptonemal complex
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U2 - 10.1093/humrep/del190
DO - 10.1093/humrep/del190
M3 - Article
C2 - 16751649
AN - SCOPUS:33749565760
SN - 0268-1161
VL - 21
SP - 2335
EP - 2339
JO - Human Reproduction
JF - Human Reproduction
IS - 9
ER -