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A diploid‐triploid human mosaic with cytogenetic evidence of double fertilization
Author(s) -
Dewald Gordon,
Alvarez Marcos N.,
Cloutier Mark D.,
Kelalis Panayotis P.,
Gordon Hymie
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1975.tb04403.x
Subject(s) - ploidy , zygote , biology , karyotype , sperm , human fertilization , andrology , genetics , somatic cell , chromosome , anatomy , embryo , embryogenesis , medicine , gene
The karyotype 46,XX/69,XXY was found in a 13‐year‐old, mentally subnormal patient with club feet, strabismus, eunuchoid habitus, small penis, midscrotal urethrovaginal opening, small descended left testis, and small undescended right testis; no ovarian tissue could be found at laparotomy. Triploid:diploid cell ratios were 60:40 and 4:96 in skin fibroblasts and circulating lymphocytes, respectively. In the triploid line, two of the no. 13 chromosomes had unusually large satellites and one of the no. 22 chromosomes had a brightly fluorescent zone on its short arms. The patient's father was heterozygous for both these autosomal markers; the mother carried neither marker. This, together with the single Y, indicated that the extra haploid set was derived from the father. Of several possible mechanisms, we favor the suggestion that double fertilization occurred; one sperm nucleus immediately fused with the egg nucleus producing the diploid line; the second sperm nucleus was incorporated later into one of the two cells resulting from the first division of the zygote, producing the triploid line.