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Genetic analysis of sperm and implications of severe male infertility--a review.
Placenta - 1 Oct 2003
Egozcue J, Blanco J, Anton E, Egozcue S, Sarrate Z, Vidal F
Abstract excerpt
The use of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) on decondensed sperm heads has allowed to analyse the chromosome constitution of spermatozoa in different populations. In controls, the mean incidence of disomy (including all chromosomes) is about 6.7 per cent; diploidy increases with age, and some individuals may show a special tendency to nondisjunction. Carriers of numerical sex chromosome anomalies show a...
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