Cytogenetic studies in patients with reproductive failure.

BACKGROUND

Cytogenetic studies in patients with reproductive failure

AIM: To investigate the contribution of chromosomal abnormalities in sub fertility and in couples with repeated abortions.

METHODS

Hundred and 13 couples who had at least two or more spontaneous abortions and 65 women and 63 men with infertility were analyzed cytogenetically.

RESULTS

Major chromosomal rearrangements were found in 8% and minor variants in 6% in the study population. Major chromosomal aberrations were judged to explain 4.9% of recurrent abortions and 13% of infertility. Chromosomal abnormalities in infertile men occurred in 5% and in infertile women in 21.5%. The chromosomal abnormalities were structural (57%), numerical (18%) or mosaics (25%).

CONCLUSIONS

Chromosomal aberrations in recurrent abortions are mostly structural ones and those in female infertility mosaicism of sex chromosomes. Turner's syndrome, Turner variants and XY females are detected as a cause of female infertility. The structural and numerical aberrations of either sex or autosomal chromosomes were found in infertile men.