Chromosomes and reproduction - mitotic aneuploidies

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Which origin of aneuploidy of cells is most affected when maternal ages increases?

Maternal meiotic has the most aneuploidies when the maternal age is older than mitotic aneuploidy. The paternal meiotic have a constant aneuploidy when ageing.

Challenges of the zygotic divisons (first mitotic divisons)

  • large cytoplasm -> dilution of check point proteins -> weak checkpoints
    • G1 and G2 checkpoints are also weak
  • protamine-tot-histone exchange in paternal chromatin
  • DNA replication in 2 separate pronuclei
    • No homologous recombination for DNA repair because DNA replication in 2 separate pronuclei.
  • spindle assembly  and positioning
    • chromosomes form 2 separate pronuclei
    • from acentrosomal (oocyte) to centrosomal (zygote)
    • from extremely asymmetric (oocyte) to symmetric (zygote) cell division

Mechanisms responsible for errors in early embryos:

  • permissive checkpoints (G1, G2, and M checkpoints)
  • DNA replication stress
  • incomplete pronuclei migration
  • asynchrony and un-clustering of parental genomes
  • Mal-positioning of centrosomes
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The completion of DNA replication in a zygote is in G2. DNA replication stress is induces by

  • de-novo non-gametic DNA lesions occur during S-phase and can persist until the onset of mitosis.
  • DNA replication is extremely slow in zygotes
    • through increasing high origin density (zygote is low origin density) and frequent fork stalling
  • checkpoint is permissive to incomplete DNA replication during late G2 phase in early phases in complete DNA replication leads to arrest of the cel division.
  • the DNA replication stress makes errors in gene-poor regions of genome.

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