生物
非整倍体
核型
内细胞团
遗传学
胚胎
减数分裂
DNA测序
染色体
DNA
男科
胚泡
基因
胚胎发生
医学
作者
Effrosyni A. Chavli,Sjoerd J. Klaasen,Diane Van Opstal,Joop S.E. Laven,Geert J. P. L. Kops,Esther B. Baart
摘要
Aneuploidy, a deviation from the normal chromosome copy number, is common in human embryos and is considered a primary cause of implantation failure and early pregnancy loss. Meiotic errors lead to uniformly abnormal karyotypes, while mitotic errors lead to chromosomal mosaicism: the presence of cells with at least two different karyotypes within an embryo. Knowledge about mosaicism in blastocysts mainly derives from bulk DNA sequencing of multicellular trophectoderm (TE) and/or inner cell mass (ICM) samples. However, this can only detect an average net gain or loss of DNA above a detection threshold of 20-30%. To accurately assess mosaicism, we separated the TE and ICM of 55 good quality surplus blastocysts and successfully applied single-cell whole genome sequencing (scKaryo-seq) on 1057 cells. Mosaicism involving numerical and structural chromosome abnormalities was detected in 82% of the embryos, where most abnormalities affected less than 20% of the cells. Structural abnormalities, potentially caused by replication stress and DNA damage, were observed in 69% of the embryos. In conclusion, our findings indicated that mosaicism is prevalent in good-quality blastocysts, while these blastocysts would likely be identified as normal with current bulk DNA sequencing techniques used for preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A).
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