STRUCTURE AND INHERITANCE OF SOME HETEROZYGOUS ROBERTSONIAN TRANSLOCATIONS IN MAN
STRUCTURE AND INHERITANCE OF SOME HETEROZYGOUS ROBERTSONIAN TRANSLOCATIONS IN MAN
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DOI:
10.1136/jmg.13.5.381
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
LAMPOTANG, PRLC
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作者:
DANIEL, A;LAMPOTANG, PRLC
Banding studies in 25 Robertsonian translocations showed that all could be interpreted as stable dicentrics. The mechanism for their stability is likely to be the proximity of their centromeres but centromeric supression could also have a role. In many of these dicentric translocations, discontinuous centromeric suppression, as indicated by chromatid separation at 1 of the centromeric regions, was observed in C-banded preparations. A further observation of undefined relation to the 1st was that the ratio of the 2 constitutive centromeric heterochromatin (CCH) regions from the component chromosomes of the translocations was variable in the same translocation type, e.g., t(13;14). This ratio may influence the segregation ratio. Abnormal spermatogenesis is suggested as the likely mechanism for the difference in the proportion of aneuploid offspring in the progeny of maternal and paternal heterozygotes. Neither of the t dic(21;21)s could be interpreted as isochromosomes. Robertsonian fusion translocations may be defined as stable, dicentric, whole-arm translocations, with both centromeres in a median position and resulting in the loss of a small acentric fragment during their formation. They occur at high frequency between telocentric or, as in man, certain acrocentric chromosomes because of some intrinsic property of those chromosomes not possessed by metacentric chromosomes and mediated by interphase association of centromeres.