title: Array comparative genomic hybridization analysis in first-trimester spontaneous abortions with 'normal' karyotypes.
abstract: Array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) analysis was conducted in chorionic villous samples from 20 first-trimester spontaneous abortions with G-banding normal chromosomes. A microarray, containing 2,173 BAC clones and covering the whole genome with a 1.5-Mb resolution, was constructed and used in the analysis. Two deletions were identified: a 1.4-Mb deletion at 3p26.2-p26.3 and a 13.7-Mb deletion at 13q32.3-qter. Reexamination of chromosome preparations from the sample with the 13.7-Mb deletion documented a mixture of cells with the 13q- chromosome and those with 46,XX chromosomes, the latter of which are likely to have been derived from contaminating decidual cells. This left the 1.4-Mb 3p deletion as the only instance with submicroscopic imbalance detected, giving a frequency of 1 in 19 (5%) G-banding normal abortions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Shimokawa
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miyake
authors.forename: Kanako
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizuguchi
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Niikawa
authors.forename: Naomichi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000235:genetics*; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D002882:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13 / Q000235:genetics*; D002893:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3 / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011261:Pregnancy Trimester, First / Q000235:genetics*