MITOTIC CHROMOSOMAL-ANOMALIES AMONG 1210 INFERTILE MEN

Detailed medical and clinical examinations were carried out an 1608 me n attending an infertility clinic to determine if any of those exhibit ing abnormal semenograms also had any other readily identifiable clini cal condition. In all, 1210 men showed abnormal semenograms according to World Health Organization criteria. Karyotyping of the white blood cells in these 1210 men revealed 44 (3.6%) individuals with either aut osomal or sex chromosomal aberrations, However, no single characterist ic feature of their semenogram or clinical condition was of any diagno stic value to predict the existence of a chromosomal anomaly.