The Variation of Aneuploidy Frequency in the Developing and Adult Human Brain Revealed by an Interphase FISH Study
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
- Vol. 53 (3) , 385-390
- https://doi.org/10.1369/jhc.4a6430.2005
Abstract
Despite the lack of direct cytogenetic studies, the neuronal cells of the normal human brain have been postulated to contain normal (diploid) chromosomal complement. Direct proof of a chromosomal mutation presence leading to large-scale genomic alterations in neuronal cells has been missing in the human brain. Large-scale genomic variations due to chromosomal complement instability in developing neuronal cells may lead to the variable level of chromosomal mosaicism probably having a substantial effect on brain development. The aim of the present study was the pilot assessment of chromosome complement variations in neuronal cells of developing and adult human brain tissues using interphase multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (mFISH). Chromosome-enumerating DNA probes from the original collection (chromosomes 1, 13 and 21, 18, X, and Y) were used for the present pilot FISH study. As a source of fetal brain tissue, the medulla oblongata was used. FISH studies were performed using uncultured fetal brain samples as well as organotypic cultures of medulla oblongata tissue. Cortex tissues of postmortem adult brain samples (Brodmann area 10) were also studied. In cultured in vitro embryonic neuronal brain cells, an increased level of aneuploidy was found (mean rate in the range of 1.3–7.0% per individual chromosome, in contrast to 0.6–3.0% and 0.1–0.8% in uncultured fetal and postmortem adult brain cells, respectively). The data obtained support the hypothesis regarding aneuploidy occurrence in normal developing and adult human brain.Keywords
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