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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PROBES
Volume 22, Issue 5-6, Pages 316-319Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2008.06.004
Keywords
Meiotic recombinants; Pericentric inversions; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Multiple ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA); Deletion; Duplication
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Objective: Pericentric inversion carriers are predisposed to produce unbalanced gametes that result in conceptuses having either a partial trisomy for one distal segment and a partial monosomy for the other or vice versa. Larger inversions result in smaller unbalanced distal segments and a higher likelihood of a viable fetus. In these cases the structure of the recombinant chromosome is similar to the original balanced inverted or normal ones despite the (unbalanced) genetic content. Such cases may not be detected prenatally by conventional cytogenetic analysis. Methods: In all prenatal samples from the pericentric inversion carriers we applied subtelomeric FISH probes specific for the chromosome involved in order to detect parental meiotic recombinants resulting from a single cross-over event. Confirmatory MLPA was also applied in unbalanced fetuses. Results: The occurrence of a duplication deficiency unbalance from pericentric inversion carriers was successfully detected in all three fetuses by FISH. MLPA assays applied in two cases confirmed these results. Conclusions: The application of commercial FISH subtelomeric probes is a reliable method that could be routinely applied for the detection of single cross-over meiotic recombinants. MLPA is a sound alternative technique. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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