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ArticleNature medicine2023

Prevalence of chromosomal alterations in first-trimester spontaneous pregnancy loss.

Rick Essers, Igor N Lebedev, Ants Kurg, Elizaveta A Fonova, Servi J C Stevens, Rebekka M Koeck, Ulrike von Rango, Lloyd Brandts, Spyridon Panagiotis Deligiannis, Tatyana V Nikitina and 16 more

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Article in Nature medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Rick Essers *Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Igor N Lebedev *Research Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-0482-8046
Ants Kurg *Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.ORCID 0000-0002-0829-1987
Elizaveta A FonovaResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-1338-5451
Servi J C StevensDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Rebekka M KoeckDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5852-5633
Ulrike von RangoDepartment of Anatomy & Embryology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Lloyd BrandtsDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology Assessment (KEMTA), Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Spyridon Panagiotis DeligiannisDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.ORCID 0009-0003-2806-839X
Tatyana V NikitinaResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-4230-6855
Elena A SazhenovaResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-3875-3932
Ekaterina N TolmachevaResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-6427-3276
Anna A KashevarovaResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-0716-4302
Dmitry A FedotovResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-0295-3230
Viktoria V DemenevaResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.
Daria I ZhigalinaResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-2800-8875
Gleb V DrozdovResearch Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-0383-1013
Salwan Al-NasiryDepartment of Genetics and Cell Biology, GROW-Research Institute for Oncology and Reproduction, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Merryn V E MacvilleDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1675-2234
Arthur van den WijngaardDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Jos DreesenDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Aimee PaulussenDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Alexander HoischenDepartment of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8072-4476
Han G BrunnerDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Andres SalumetsDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. andres.salumets@ki.se.ORCID 0000-0002-1251-8160
Masoud Zamani EstekiDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands. masoud.zamaniesteki@mumc.nl.ORCID 0000-0003-3909-0050
Russian Academy of Sciences · RUMaastricht University · NLKarolinska University Hospital · SERadboud University Nijmegen · NLMaastricht University Medical Centre · NLUniversity of Helsinki · FIUniversity of Tartu · EE

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) EU952516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pregnancy loss is often caused by chromosomal abnormalities of the conceptus. The prevalence of these abnormalities and the allocation of (ab)normal cells in embryonic and placental lineages during intrauterine development remain elusive. In this study, we analyzed 1,745 spontaneous pregnancy losses and found that roughly half (50.4%) of the products of conception (POCs) were karyotypically abnormal, with maternal and paternal age independently contributing to the increased genomic aberration rate. We applied genome haplarithmisis to a subset of 94 pregnancy losses with normal parental and POC karyotypes. Genotyping of parental DNA as well as POC extra-embryonic mesoderm and chorionic villi DNA, representing embryonic and trophoblastic tissues, enabled characterization of the genomic landscape of both lineages. Of these pregnancy losses, 35.1% had chromosomal aberrations not previously detected by karyotyping, increasing the rate of aberrations of pregnancy losses to 67.8% by extrapolation. In contrast to viable pregnancies where mosaic chromosomal abnormalities are often restricted to chorionic villi, such as confined placental mosaicism, we found a higher degree of mosaic chromosomal imbalances in extra-embryonic mesoderm rather than chorionic villi. Our results stress the importance of scrutinizing the full allelic architecture of genomic abnormalities in pregnancy loss to improve clinical management and basic research of this devastating condition.

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Abortion, SpontaneousPlacentaChromosome AberrationsDNAFemaleHumansMosaicismPregnancyPregnancy Trimester, FirstPrevalenceDNA

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PMID37996709
PMCPMC10719097
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