title: Cytogenetic studies in patients with reproductive failure.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cytogenetic studies in patients with reproductive failure
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the contribution of chromosomal abnormalities in sub fertility and in couples with repeated abortions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hundred and 13 couples who had at least two or more spontaneous abortions and 65 women and 63 men with infertility were analyzed cytogenetically.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Major chromosomal rearrangements were found in 8% and minor variants in 6% in the study population. Major chromosomal aberrations were judged to explain 4.9% of recurrent abortions and 13% of infertility. Chromosomal abnormalities in infertile men occurred in 5% and in infertile women in 21.5%. The chromosomal abnormalities were structural (57%), numerical (18%) or mosaics (25%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chromosomal aberrations in recurrent abortions are mostly structural ones and those in female infertility mosaicism of sex chromosomes. Turner's syndrome, Turner variants and XY females are detected as a cause of female infertility. The structural and numerical aberrations of either sex or autosomal chromosomes were found in infertile men.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biology, Medical Faculty of Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey. fduzcan@pamukkale.edu.tr
authors.forename: Füsun
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Düzcan
authors.forename: Münevver
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Atmaca
authors.forename: G Ozan
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Cetin
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bagci
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000235:genetics*; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D007446:Chromosome Inversion; D002900:Chromosomes, Human, 1-3; D002906:Chromosomes, Human, 6-12 and X; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D005260:Female; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000235:genetics*; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000235:genetics*; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic