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Inversão Cromossômica , Cromossomos Humanos Par 3/ultraestrutura , Mieloma Múltiplo/complicações , Síndrome de Sweet/genética , Ceruloplasmina/genética , Quimiotaxia de Leucócito/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 3/genética , Feminino , Humanos , Lactoferrina/genética , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mieloma Múltiplo/diagnóstico , Mieloma Múltiplo/genética , Receptores da Transferrina/genética , Síndrome de Sweet/etiologia , Síndrome de Sweet/patologiaRESUMO
The difficulty of detecting sex chromosome mosaicism cytogenetically hinders the finding of an acceptable explanation for phenotypic-genotypic discrepancy amongst those patients. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) permits the genomic identification of patients with mosaic karyotypes in interphase nuclei by utilising an X chromosome-specific DNA probe (interphase cytogenetics). We evaluated the efficiency of interphase cytogenetics in the detection of the genomic constitution of the ovary from a patient with Turner's syndrome having mosaicism (46,XX/45,X0) previously established by blood lymphocyte karyotyping. We used a biotin-labelled alphoid repetitive sequence, pBAMX5, specific for the centromeric region of the human X chromosome. Although examination of ovarian sections and blood lymphocytes by FISH showed the presence of both 46,XX and 45,X0 cell lines, the genomic constitution of the germ cells/oocytes in ovarian primordial follicles was shown to be normal (46,XX). Our results (1) show the high applicability of interphase cytogenetics on paraffin sections, (2) indicate the possibility of genomic screening of different tissues that are otherwise not amenable to routine cytogenetic investigation and (3) offer a reliable methodological approach to defining accurate by the percentage of abnormal karyotypes in mosaicism of different organs and non-dividing tissues.