[Interconnection of the functional activity of nucleolar organizer regions of chromosomes with human reproductive pathologies]. 1993

N I Voskoboĭnik, and N A Liapunova, and V V Viktorov, and S A Miliutikov

Comparative analysis of transcriptional activity of human nucleolus organizer regions (NOR) of the chromosomes in the group of the control phenotypically healthy individuals (I) and in the spouses with repeated spontaneous abortions (II) was conducted in an attempt to verify the hypothesis: whether elimination of zygotes having received a very large or very small number of the copies of active rRNA genes may serve as a factor decreasing the fecundity of some spouses? It has been shown that the groups I and II have no differences in total activity of 10 NOR (Ag staining, rating estimation). At the same time, the II group is characterized by higher, in comparison with the I, heterogeneity of Ag-NOR variants in homologues of 5 nucleolus-organizing chromosomes. As a result, in the individuals of the group II the gametes are formed which are more heterogenous than in the group I for the Ag-NOR pattern variants. The imitation computer experiments revealed that in the group II elimination of zygotes as a consequence of inherited Ag-NOR variants combination should occur more frequently (in 22.2% cases) than in the group I (15.9%), p < 0.05. Thus, the hypothesis under test was substantiated in the present study.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007247 Infertility, Female Diminished or absent ability of a female to achieve conception. Sterility, Female,Sterility, Postpartum,Sub-Fertility, Female,Subfertility, Female,Female Infertility,Female Sterility,Female Sub-Fertility,Female Subfertility,Postpartum Sterility,Sub Fertility, Female
D008297 Male Males
D009697 Nucleolus Organizer Region The chromosome region which is active in nucleolus formation and which functions in the synthesis of ribosomal RNA. Nucleolar Organizer,Nucleolar Organizers,Nucleolus Organizer Regions,Organizer Region, Nucleolus,Organizer Regions, Nucleolus,Organizer, Nucleolar,Organizers, Nucleolar,Region, Nucleolus Organizer,Regions, Nucleolus Organizer
D002877 Chromosomes, Human Very long DNA molecules and associated proteins, HISTONES, and non-histone chromosomal proteins (CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE). Normally 46 chromosomes, including two sex chromosomes are found in the nucleus of human cells. They carry the hereditary information of the individual. Chromosome, Human,Human Chromosome,Human Chromosomes
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014158 Transcription, Genetic The biosynthesis of RNA carried out on a template of DNA. The biosynthesis of DNA from an RNA template is called REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION. Genetic Transcription

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