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Comparison of Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy in Spermatozoa of Fertile Men and Those Requiring ICSI Treatment Detected by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization *
Author(s) -
Damri Louise E.,
Vutyavanich Teraporn,
Fishel Simon
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 1341-8076
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2000.tb01308.x
Subject(s) - aneuploidy , intracytoplasmic sperm injection , andrology , fluorescence in situ hybridization , chromosome , medicine , sperm , ploidy , gynecology , biology , infertility , genetics , pregnancy , gene
Objective: To compare the frequencies of aneuploidy for chromosomes X, Y and 18 in spermatozoa of infertile and fertile males, using 3‐color fluorescence in situ hybridization. Methods: Twelve infertile patients who underwent intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham were studied. Three fertile men served as controls. Aneuploidy frequencies in both groups were compared using 2‐sample t ‐tests. Results: A total of 26,615 ad 93,649 cells were scored in the control and infertile groups respectively. The frequencies of diploidy, sex chromosome disomy and chromosome 18 disomy in the fertile (0.11, 0.28 and 0.11%) compared to the infertile males (0.05, 0.18 and 0.06%) were not statistically significantly different. Conclusion: Our preliminary data do not indicate an increased risk from paternal origin sex chromosome aneuploidies in ICSI. However, we recommend further investigations of the cytogenetic constitution of spermatozoa from severe male factor patients.