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Open AccessDown syndrome phenotype in a boy with a mosaic microduplication of chromosome 21q22
Down syndrome, typically caused by trisomy 21, may also be associated by duplications of the Down syndrome critical region (DSCR) on chromosome 21q22. However, patients with small duplications of DSCR without ...
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Open AccessDe novo duplication of chromosome 16p in a female infant with signs of neonatal hemochromatosis
Reported cases of “pure” duplication of the entire short arm of chromosome 16 (16p) are rare, with only 7 patients described in the literature. We report on a female infant with de novo 16p duplication localiz...
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Open AccessIdentification of subtelomeric genomic imbalances and breakpoint map** with quantitative PCR in 296 individuals with congenital defects and/or mental retardation
Submicroscopic imbalances in the subtelomeric regions of the chromosomes are considered to play an important role in the aetiology of mental retardation (MR). The aim of the study was to evaluate a quantitativ...
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Jacobsen Syndrome
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Small supernumerary marker chromosomes (SMCs): genotype-phenotype correlation and classification
Small supernumerary marker chromosomes (SMCs) are present in about 0.05% of the human population. In approximately 30% of SMC carriers (excluding the ~60% SMC derived from one of the acrocentric chromosomes), ...
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Peripheral Blood
Peripheral blood is the most easily available tissue for postnatal chromosome analysis. Metaphase preparations are finished after two or three days. Though blood does not normally contain spontaneously dividin...
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Maternal levels of pregnancy-specific β1 (SP-1) are elevated in pregnancies affected by Down's syndrome
Concentrations of pregnancy-specific β1-glycoprotein (SP-1) were measured in maternal blood and amniotic fluid of patients with a trisomic fetus and compared with that of a cytogenetically normal fetus at weeks 1...
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Chromosome segregation at meiosis I in female T(2;4)1Gö/+ mice: no evidence for a decreased crossover frequency with maternal age
The influence of age and hormones on chromosome segregation at meiosis I was studied in female mice heterozygous for the T(2;4)1Gö translocation. Females of two age groups (18–22 and 40–56 weeks old) were stim...
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Prenatal diagnosis of genetic disease by chorionic villi sampling
Chorionic villi sampling at week 9–11 of gestation is increasingly applied as a new method in prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders. Cytogenetical, biochemical or recombinant DNA methods have been used succe...
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Cytogenetic analysis of early human abortuses after preparation of chromosomes directly from chorionic villi
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Mechanisms of Nondisjunction: Facts and Perspectives
An ordered segregation requires distinct processes of differentiation within the germ cell for recognition and segregation of homologous chromosomes/chromatids. These include synchronous maturation of the nucl...
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Mean corpuscular hemoglobin is increased in Martin-Bell syndrome
Studying the blood picture of 11 patients with Martin-Bell syndrome, we found the erythrocytes relatively hyperchromic when compared to the data from 171 matched controls living in the same institution. Becaus...