Table 1.

Chromosomal anomalies and polymorphic variations across the group

Type of variation/anomaly	Chromosome with variation/anomaly	Number of cases across the different groups
		Group A (females with RSA/2 or more abortions)	Group B (males with wife having history of abortion/BOH)	Group C (IVF failures)	Group D (primary and secondary infertility)	Group E (sterility)	Group F (history of malformed child)
Variation in “q” arm (qh+)	1qh+	4	3	0	0	0	0
	9qh+	0	1	0	1 (male)	0	0
Presence of stalks (pstk+) on the short arm “p” of the acrocentric chromosome	13pstk+	3	0	0	1 (male)	0	0
	14pstk+	2	0	0	0	0	0
	15pstk+	12	9	1 (female)	1 (male)	2 (1 male, 1 female)	0
	21pstk+	5	2	0	0	0	0
	22pstk+	4	7	0	1 (male)	2	1 (male)
Pericentric inversion of chromosome	inv(9)(p11q13)	20	14	2 (male)	5 (4 female, 1 male)	4 (3 male, 1 female)	2 (female)
	inv(Y)(p11q11)	0	5	0	2 (male)	4 (male)	0
Robertsonian translocation	rob(13;14)(q10;q10)	10	5	0	0	1 (male)	0
	rob(21;21)(q10;q10)	1	0	0	0	0	0
	rob(22;22)(q10;q10)	0	1	0	0	0	0

RSA=Recurrent spontaneous abortion, BOH=Bad Obstetric history, IVF=In vitro fertilization