Heteromorphic variants of chromosome 9.

Nadezda Kosyakova, Ani Grigorian, Thomas Liehr, Marina Manvelyan, Isabella Simonyan, Hasmik Mkrtchyan, Rouben Aroutiounian, Anna D Polityko, Anna I Kulpanovich, Tatiana Egorova, Evgenia Jaroshevich, Alla Frolova, Natalia Shorokh, Irina V Naumchik, Marianne Volleth, Isolde Schreyer, Heike Nelle, Markus Stumm, Rolf-Dieter Wegner, Gisela Reising-Ackermann, Martina Merkas, Lukretija Brecevic, Thomas Martin, Laura Rodríguez, Samarth Bhatt, Monika Ziegler, Katharina Kreskowski, Anja Weise, Ali Sazci, Svetlana Vorsanova, Marcelo de Bello Cioffi, Emel Ergul

Molecular cytogenetics 2013 Apr 01

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Heterochromatic variants of pericentromere of chromosome 9 are reported and discussed since decades concerning their detailed structure and clinical meaning. However, detailed studies are scarce. Thus, here we provide the largest ever done molecular cytogenetic research based on >300 chromosome 9 heteromorphism carriers. In this study, 334 carriers of heterochromatic variants of chromosome 9 were included, being 192 patients from Western Europe and the remainder from Easter-European origin. A 3-color-fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probe-set directed against for 9p12 to 9q13~21.1 (9het-mix) and 8 different locus-specific probes were applied for their characterization. The 9het-mix enables the characterization of 21 of the yet known 24 chromosome 9 heteromorphic patterns. In this study, 17 different variants were detected including five yet unreported; the most frequent were pericentric inversions (49.4%) followed by 9qh-variants (23.9%), variants of 9ph (11.4%), cenh (8.2%), and dicentric- (3.8%) and duplication-variants (3.3%). For reasons of simplicity, a new short nomenclature for the yet reported 24 heteromorphic patterns of chromosome 9 is suggested. Six breakpoints involved in four of the 24 variants could be narrowed down using locus-specific probes. Based on this largest study ever done in carriers of chromosome 9 heteromorphisms, three of the 24 detailed variants were more frequently observed in Western than in Eastern Europe. Besides, there is no clear evidence that infertility is linked to any of the 24 chromosome 9 heteromorphic variants.

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PMID: 23547710

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