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Sperm Collection of Differential Quality Using Density Gradient Centrifugation
Published on: November 29, 2018
Individual variation of the percentage of Y-chromosome bearing sperm content in human ejaculates
Rajasingam S Jeyendran1, Jared Graham2, Saranya Tharma1
1Androlab Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Abstract:
The study aimed to determine the variation of Y-chromosome-bearing sperm content among individual ejaculates. A real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) with unique primers was developed and used to calculate the percentage of Y-chromosome-bearing sperm in individual ejaculates from 50 randomly selected men. There was a significant difference in the overall mean ± SD between the proportion of Y-chromosome-bearing sperm and X-chromosome-bearing sperm (45.36 ± 7.88 vs. 54.42 ± 7.88). Of the 50 ejaculates, 17 had more than, and 14 had less than the 99% confidence interval of the mean of the Y-chromosome-bearing sperm (45.58 ± 2.87). These results suggest that the inconsistency in sperm-based sex-selection outcomes appears to be a function of differences in the ejaculates and highlights the need for further study in environmental and genetic factors contributing to X or Y bearing spermatozoan instability.Abbreviations: qPCR: real-time polymerase chain reaction; ROS: reactive oxygen species; DTT: dithiothreitol; SRY: sex-determining region Y.
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