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Aneuploid epididynamal sperm detected in chromosomally normal and Robertsonian translocation-bearing mice using a new three-chromosome FISH method

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We present a new method to detect epididymal sperm aneuploidy (ESA) in mice using simultaneous fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with DNA probes specific for mouse chromosomes X, Y and 8. The method was applied to Robertsonian (Rb) translocation (8.14) heterozygotes and homozygotes as well as the chromosomally normal B6C3F1. The sex ratios of sperm did not differ from the expected 1∶1 and the hybridization efficiencies were ≈99.7% for over 60 000 sperm analyzed. Mice heterozygous for Rb (8.14) produced about tenfold higher rates of sperm with chromosome 8 hyperhaploidy than did Rb (8.14) homozygotes or chromosomally normal mice, while frequencies of sperm with hyperhaploidies for chromosomes X and Y were unaffected in all three lines of mice. Hyperhaploid frequencies obtained with the ESA method were consistent with those of the previous testicular FISH method and were validated by published data obtained by conventional cytogenetic analyses (meiotic metaphase II and first cleavage). Thus, the mouse three-chromosome ESA assay together with the previously developed aneuploidy assay for human sperm constitute a promising pair of interspecific biomarkers for comparative studies of the genetic and physiologic mechanisms of the induction and persistence of aneuploidy in male germ cells.

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  1. Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, L-452, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, P.O. Box 808, 94550, Livermore, CA, USA

    X. Lowe, S. O’Hogan, D. Moore II & A. Wyrobek

  2. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C., USA

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Lowe, X., O’Hogan, S., Moore, D. et al. Aneuploid epididynamal sperm detected in chromosomally normal and Robertsonian translocation-bearing mice using a new three-chromosome FISH method. Chromosoma 105, 204–210 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02528768

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