Human Molecular Genetics, 2001, Vol. 10, No. 3 243-250
© 2001 Oxford University Press
Maternal sex chromosome non-disjunction: evidence for X chromosome-specific risk factors
1Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8BJ, UK, 2Human Genetics, Duthie Building, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK and 3Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, BRB 724 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, USA
Human trisomy is attributable to many different mechanisms and the relative importance of each mechanism is highly chromosome specific. The association between altered recombination and maternal non-disjunction is well documented: reductions in recombination have been reported for maternal meiosis I (MI) errors involving chromosomes 15, 16, 18 and 21 and increased recombination has been reported for meiosis II (MII) errors involving chromosome 21. We therefore investigated maternal X chromosome non-disjunction, to determine whether the effects of recombination are unique to the X chromosome or similar to any of the autosomes thus far studied. We genotyped 45 47,XXX females and 95 47,XXY males of maternal origin. Our results demonstrate that 49% arose during MI, 29% during MII and 16% were postzygotic events; a further 7% were meiotic but could not be assigned as either MI or MII because of recombination at the centromere. Among the MI cases, a majority (56%) had no detectable transitions and so absent recombination is an important factor for X chromosome non-disjunction. However, similar to trisomy 15 and unlike trisomy 21, we observed a significant increase in the mean maternal age of transitional MI errors compared with nullitransitional cases. In our studies of MII errors, recombination appeared normal and there was no obvious effect of maternal age, distinguishing our results from MII non-disjunction of chromosomes 18 or 21. Thus, surprisingly, the risk factors associated with both MI and MII non-disjunction appear to be different for virtually every chromosome that has been adequately studied.
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