期刊
CHROMOSOME RESEARCH
卷 8, 期 2, 页码 101-109出版社
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009234217981
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aggregation chimera; dosage compensation; genomic imprinting; RNA FISH; sex-chromosome aneuploidy; X-inactivation; Xist
Mouse embryos having an additional maternally inherited X chromosome (X-M) invariably die before midgestation with the deficient extraembryonic ectoderm of the polar trophectoderm lineage, whereas postnatal mice having an additional paternally inherited X chromosome (X-P) survive beyond parturition. A cytogenetic study led us to hypothesize that abnormal development of such embryos disomic for X-M (DsX(M)) is attributable to two doses of active X-M chromosome in extraembryonic tissues. To test the validity of this hypothesis, we examined the initial X chromosome inactivation pattern in embryos at the blastocyst stage by means of replication banding method as well as RNA FISH detecting Xist transcripts. X-P was the only asynchronously replicating X chromosome, if any, in (XXXP)-X-M-X-M blastocysts, and no such allocyclic X chromosome was ever detected in (XXY)-X-M-Y-M blastocysts. In agreement with these findings, only one Xist paint signal was detected in 79% of (XXXP)-X-M-X-M cells, whereas no such signal was found in (XXY)-X-M-Y-M embryos. Thus, the present study supports the hypothesis that two X chromosomes remaining active in the extraembryonic cell lineages due to the maternal imprinting explain the underdevelopment of extraembryonic structures and hence early postimplantation death of DsX(M) embryos.
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