Adkison L R, Andrews R H, Vowell N L, Koontz W L
Division of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA 31207.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1994 Mar;170(3):952-5. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9378(94)70312-4.
The objective was to test the reliability of new deoxyribonucleic acid primers that have previously been used very efficiently by this laboratory with amniolysate samples to amplify a 248 bp Y-specific, repeated sequence from maternal blood during pregnancy.
Blood samples were obtained from 50 women during weeks 11 and 16 of pregnancy and were analyzed for the presence of the Y chromosome-specific sequences.
Y-specific fragments were identified in 19 of 24 (79.2%) women after one complete amplification. A second amplification of these samples negative for Y-specific fragments revealed three additional samples positive for the Y chromosome-specific fragment. Only two male fetuses remained unidentified. Overall, 91.7% male fetuses and 96% of all fetuses (48/50) in these women were correctly identified.
The primers described in this study provide an additional or alternative tool for the determination, by means of the polymerase chain reaction, of Y chromosome-bearing cells in maternal circulation.
本研究旨在测试新的脱氧核糖核酸引物的可靠性,本实验室此前已成功地使用这些引物与羊水样本进行扩增,以在孕期从母血中扩增出一段248 bp的Y染色体特异性重复序列。
在妊娠第11周和第16周从50名女性中采集血样,并分析其中Y染色体特异性序列的存在情况。
在一次完整扩增后,24名女性中有19名(79.2%)检测到Y特异性片段。对这些Y特异性片段呈阴性的样本进行第二次扩增后,又发现了3个Y染色体特异性片段呈阳性的样本。仅2名男性胎儿未能识别。总体而言,这些女性中91.7%的男性胎儿和96%的所有胎儿(48/50)被正确识别。
本研究中描述的引物为通过聚合酶链反应测定母血循环中携带Y染色体的细胞提供了一种额外的或替代的工具。