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Synapsis and synaptic adjustment in an infertile human male heterozygous for a pericentric inversion in chromosome 1

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Synapsis and “synaptic adjustment” were analyzed, using electron microscopy in silver stained surface microspreads of inversion-bearing spermatocytes, in an infertile human male with an inherited pericentric inversion in chromosome 1. Possible reasons for his infertility are discussed.

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  1. Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, Institut d'Embryologie, 11, rue Humann, F-67085, Strasbourg Cédex, France

    O. Gabriel-Robez, C. Ratomponirina & Y. Rumpler

  2. CHU de Rennes, F-35000, Rennes, France

    B. Le Marec

  3. Faculté de Médecine, Boulevard Pierre Dramard, F-13326, Marseille, France

    J. M. Luciani & M. R. Guichaoua

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Gabriel-Robez, O., Ratomponirina, C., Rumpler, Y. et al. Synapsis and synaptic adjustment in an infertile human male heterozygous for a pericentric inversion in chromosome 1. Hum Genet 72, 148–152 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00283934

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