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Synapsis and “synaptic adjustment” were analyzed, using electron microscopy in silver stained surface microspreads of inversion-bearing spermatocytes, in an infertile human male with an inherited pericentric inversion in chromosome 1. Possible reasons for his infertility are discussed.
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Gabriel-Robez, O., Ratomponirina, C., Rumpler, Y. et al. Synapsis and synaptic adjustment in an infertile human male heterozygous for a pericentric inversion in chromosome 1. Hum Genet 72, 148–152 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00283934
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