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Fluorescencein situ hybridization (FISH) with chromosome specific alpha-satellite DNA probes was used to estimate the rates of aneuploidy of chromosomes 1, 17, 18, X and Y in human ejaculated sperm. Sperm samples were collected from six donors, and biotinylated DNA probes, D1Z5, D17Z1, D18Z1, DXZ1 and DYZ3 were hybridized to interphase sperm which had been pretreated with dithiothreitol to expand their nuclei. A minimum of 3,000 sperm per donor were analyzed. The hybridization efficiency was 99.68% for all the five probes. The frequencies of aneuploidy for chromosomes 1, 17 and 18 were 0.65%, 0.66% and 0.61% respectively. For XX-and YY-sperm the frequencies were 0.28% and 0.27% respectively. To estimate the diploidy and disomy rates, a mixture of D17Z1 and D18Z1 were used as probes, and the frequency of diploid sperm was calculated to be 0.27%. After subtraction of the diploidy rate, the disomy rates for chromosomes 1, 17, and 18 were estimated to be 0.38%, 0.39% and 0.33%, respectively. The proportion of X- and Y-bearing sperm were 49.9% and 49.66%, consistent with an expected 1: 1 ratio.
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Hu, H., Miharu, N., Mizunoe, T. et al. Detection of aneuploidy in human spermatozoa using fluorescencein situ hybridization (FISH). Jap J Human Genet 41, 381–389 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01876328
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