Article
A 45,X sterile male with Yp disguised as 21p.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Aug 2002
Dávalos Ingrid P, Rivera Horacio, Vásquez Ana I, Gutiérrez-Angulo Melva, Hernández-Vázquez Martha C, Cortina-Luna Fidel A, Wong-Ley Luis E, Domínguez-Quezada María G
Abstract excerpt
An azoospermic male was found to have, by means of banding techniques, a 45,X karyotype including a monocentric chromosome 21 with an euchromatic short arm that looked similar to Yp. This rearranged chromosome was further characterized by FISH with a whole Y chromosome paint and the alphoid repeats DYZ3 and D13Z1/D21Z1; the former probe gave a positive signal onto such a peculiar arm without spreading into the...
Topics
- Adult
- Centromere
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21
- Chromosomes, Human, X
- Chromosomes, Human, Y
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Infertility, Male
- Karyotyping
- Male
- Oligospermia
