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Reproductive failure and pericentric inversion in man
O Gabriel-Robez1, C Ratomponirina, M Croquette
1Institut d'Embryologie, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.
Andrologia
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
Pachytene analysis was carried out on an infertile man heterozygous for a pericentric inversion of chromosome 6. The synaptic behavior of the bivalent 6 inversion was analyzed using electron microscopy in silver stained surface microspread of the inversion-bearing spermatocytes. Possible mechanisms of the sterilizing effect caused by the autosomal inversion are discussed.