Abstract
Purpose: Our purpose was to assess the effect of chromosomal mosaicism in cleavage-stage human embryos on the accuracy of single-cell analysis for preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
Methods: Multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization with X, Y, and 7 or X, Y, 7, and 18 chromosome-specific probes was used to detect aneuploidy in cleavage-stage human embryos.
Results: Most nuclei were diploid for the chromosomes tested but there was extensive mosaicism including monosomic, double-monosomic, nullisomic, chaotic, and haploid nuclei.
Conclusions: Identification of sex by analysis of a single cleavage-stage nucleus is accurate but 7% of females are not identified. One or both parental chromosomes 7 were absent in at least 6.5% of the nuclei. With autosomal recessive conditions such as cystic fibrosis, carriers would be misdiagnosed as normal or affected. With autosomal dominant conditions, failure to analyze the affected parents allele (1.6–2.5%) would cause a serious misdiagnosis and analysis of at least two nuclei is necessary to reduce errors.
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Kuo, HC., Ogilvie, C.M. & Handyside, A.H. Chromosomal Mosaicism in Cleavage-Stage Human Embryos and the Accuracy of Single-Cell Genetic Analysis. J Assist Reprod Genet 15, 276–280 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022588326219
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