Abstract
An excess of hypoploid cells has repeatedly been reported in studies of aneuploidy and has often been attributed to technical artifact. We have examined at least 200 anaphase or early-telophase cells from each of 28 normal women and found that chromosome or chromatid lagging occurs in an average of 2.43% of cells. In a separate study, we have examined the frequency of micronuclei in cytochalasin B-arrested, binucleate cells and shown that a similar frequency of cells (1.6%) contain one or more micronuclei. Using in situ hybridization of an alpha centromeric probe (alpha R1), which hybridizes to 9 of the 22 human autosomes, we were able to infer that most, if not all, of the micronuclei contain whole chromosomes or chromatids. Since the loss of a chromosome by lagging will induce hypoploid daughter nuclei (two where a chromosome is lost and one where a chromatid is lost), we conclude that lagging is a major mechanism for chromosome loss in human lymphocyte cultures. This loss occurs in the cells of normal individuals under control conditions.
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