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- Title
Male infertility: establishing sperm aneuploidy thresholds in the laboratory.
- Authors
García-Mengual, Elena; Triviño, Juan Carlos; Sáez-Cuevas, Alba; Bataller, Juan; Ruíz-Jorro, Miguel; Vendrell, Xavier
- Abstract
Purpose: Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in spermatozoa provides an estimate of the frequency of chromosomal abnormalities, but there is not a clinical consensus on how to statistically analyze sperm FISH results. We therefore propose a statistical approach to establish sperm aneuploidy thresholds in a fertile population. Methods: We have determined the distribution and variation of the frequency of nullisomy, disomy, and diploidy for a set of 13 chromosomes (1, 2, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, X, and Y) in sperm nuclei from 14 fertile men by means of automatized FISH. The dispersion of data has been analyzed by the non-parametric Wilcoxon Rank Sum test. We have established the threshold values for each chromosome and aneuploidy type on the basis of the confidence interval values (99.9%). Results: Nullisomy thresholds ranged from 0.49% for chromosome 19 to 3.09% for chromosome 22; disomy thresholds ranged from 0.30% for chromosome 21 to 1.47% for chromosome 15; diploidy thresholds ranged from 0.24% for the 9/19 chromosome set to 1.21% for the 13/21 chromosome set. Conclusions: Applying this approach with clinical purposes will enable us to categorize the patient as altered or normal regarding his sperm aneuploidy. Any result surpassing the cited threshold values indicates a 99.9% probability of being significantly different from fertile controls.
- Subjects
FLUORESCENCE in situ hybridization; SPERMATOZOA; MALE infertility; ANEUPLOIDY; DIPLOIDY; X chromosome; CHROMOSOMES
- Publication
Journal of Assisted Reproduction & Genetics, 2019, Vol 36, Issue 3, p371
- ISSN
1058-0468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10815-018-1385-0