Mammography, using 26-30 kV X-rays, is a method routinely used to screen early stages of breast cancer, but some discussion about radiation-related risk associated with this methodology exists. For radioprotection purposes, it has been assigned a quality factor of 1 for all photon energies. However, the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) could increase as photon energy decreases. Analysing...

A high level of chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes may be an early marker of cancer risk, but data on risk of specific cancers and types of chromosomal aberrations (chromosome type and chromatid type) are limited. A total of 6,430 healthy individuals from nine laboratories in Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, included in chromosomal aberration surveys perfo...

Male infertility might be clearly associated with aberrant DNA methylation patterns in human spermatozoa. An association between oxidative stress and the global methylation status of the sperm genome has also been suggested. The aim of the present study was to determine whether the global sperm DNA methylation status was affected in the spermatozoa of carriers of chromosome structural aberratio...

background chromosomal abnormality plays an important role in different types of miscarriages. objectives the present study was designed to investigation chromosomal anomalies in three groups of couples with recurrent abortion (ra), spontaneous abortion (sa) and still birth (sb). patients and methods in this retrospective study, the frequency of chromosomal aberrations was investigated among 26...

Mouse spermatozoa and androgenetic one-cell embryos (androgenones) at various developmental stages were exposed to etoposide (1 μM), a topoisomerase II (topo II) poison, or to either of two catalytic inhibitors: ICRF-193 (10 μM) or merbarone (50 μM), for 2 h in order to study the clastogenic effects of these drugs on remodeled sperm chromatin. None of the drugs induced structural chromosome abe...

The induction of bovine chromosome 1 aberrations was investigated in cultivated peripheral lymphocytes of cattle after an application of a glyphosate-based herbicide formulation. Fluorescence in situ hybridization with bovine chromosome 1-specific painting probe was used for metaphase cell examination. The cultures were exposed to herbicide at concentration levels, ranging from 28 to 1 120 μmol...

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy with a very poor prognosis. The most frequent chromosome aberration in UM is the monosomy of chromosome 3. Previously, we demonstrated that ~50% of UMs express type-I receptor for luteinizing hormone‑releasing hormone (LH-RH-R). The gene encoding LH-RH-R is located in chromosome 4 (location: 4q21.2); however, the occurrence o...

Clonal cytogenetic aberrations of the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) positive hematopoiesis have been associated with the natural evolution of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) to advanced disease. Clonal aberrations of Ph negative metaphases have been described after treatment with interferon or imatinib. This study evaluates the effect of dasatinib on Ph positive clones with additional cytogenetic...

Ring chromosomes are often associated with abnormal phenotypes due to loss of genomic material and also because of ring instability at mitosis after sister chromatid exchange events. We investigated ring chromosome instability in six patients with ring chromosomes 4, 14, 15, and 18 by examining 48- and 72-h lymphocyte cultures at the first, second and subsequent cell divisions after bromodeoxyu...

The yeast TEL1 and MEC1 genes (homologous to the mammalian ATM and ATR genes, respectively) serve partially redundant roles in the detection of DNA damage and in the regulation of telomere length. Haploid yeast tel1 mec1 strains were subcultured nonselectively for approximately 200 cell divisions. The subcultured strains had very high rates of chromosome aberrations: duplications, deletions, an...