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45,X/46,XY Mosaicism and Normozoospermia in a Patient with Male Phenotype. Case Rep Med 2019; 2019:2529080. [PMID: 30805004 PMCID: PMC6360613 DOI: 10.1155/2019/2529080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The phenotypic spectrum of 45,X/46,XY mosaic males varies greatly. Previous reports have only described cases with either oligozoospermia, growth retardation, or elevated gonadotropins. However, the present case presented with normozoospermia, and normal height, sperm DNA fragmentation index (DFI), and gonadotropins. The male and his spouse were referred to The Fertility Clinic, Skive Regional Hospital, due to 2 years of infertility. After failure of several attempts of assisted reproductive treatment (ART), the male underwent genetic analysis. Conventional karyotyping in peripheral lymphocytes yielded a low-grade 45,X/46,XY mosaicism, confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) showing 6% 45,X cells. A FISH test performed on interphase nuclei from buccal mucosal cells yielded one cell with only one X-signal (0.6%), explaining the normal phenotype of the patient, but not the infertility. FISH test for sperm aneuploidy showed normal range parameters, except for a 10-fold elevated gonosomal nullisomy rate (2.1%). Hence, germinal mosaicism may be an explanation of the infertility of the case. Increased sex nullisomy levels may reflect an aberrant testicular environment compromising fertility even though sperm euploidy rates and other sperm parameters do not preclude a successful treatment with ART. Based on these results, the couple decided to use donor semen for their subsequent intrauterine insemination treatment and obtained a successful pregnancy.
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Bartsch O, Kuhnle U, Wu LL, Schwinger E, Hinkel GK. Evidence for a critical region for penoscrotal inversion, hypospadias, and imperforate anus within chromosomal region 13q32.2q34. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1996; 65:218-21. [PMID: 9240747 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19961028)65:3<218::aid-ajmg9>3.0.co;2-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Two unrelated patients with small distal deletions of the long arm of chromosome 13 are described, with shawl scrotum and penoscrotal transposition, penoscrotal hypospadias, a reduced perineum, and anal atresia. The patients have small deletions of 13(q32.2qter) and 13(q32q34), respectively. This report and the literature present evidence for one or possibly more gene(s) within region 13q32.2q34 which regulate the development of the ano-genital structures. The clinical spectrum includes bifid or shawl scrotum, hypospadias, biseptate uterus, malplaced and imperforate anus, and common cloaca.
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- O Bartsch
- Institute of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Germany
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Schuffenhauer S, Bartsch O, Stumm M, Buchholz T, Petropoulou T, Kraft S, Belohradsky B, Hinkel GK, Meitinger T, Wegner RD. DNA, FISH and complementation studies in ICF syndrome: DNA hypomethylation of repetitive and single copy loci and evidence for a trans acting factor. Hum Genet 1995; 96:562-71. [PMID: 8530004 DOI: 10.1007/bf00197412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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ICF syndrome (ICFS) is a rare immunodeficiency disorder characterized by instability of the pericentromeric heterochromatin predominantly of chromosomes 1 and 16. DNA methylation studies in two unrelated ICFS patients provide further evidence for a marked hypomethylation of satellite 2 DNA. The ICFS-specific disturbances of chromatin structure take place within the satellite 2 DNA regions, as demonstrated by fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis. Moreover, methylation studies of genomic imprinted loci D15S63, D15S9, and H19 have revealed hypomethylation to different degrees in both patients; this provides evidence for hypomethylation at autosomal single copy loci in ICFS. Cell fusion experiments have revealed a distinct reduction of chromosomal abnormalities in ICFS cells after fusion with normal cells, suggesting that the abnormalities are caused by the loss of function of an as yet unknown trans acting factor. Although it is now clear that wide-spread DNA hypomethylation is a characteristic feature of ICFS, neither the cause and mechanism of hypomethylation nor their relationship to the clinical symptoms is known. We speculate that a phenotypic effect might result from tissue-dependent abnormal gene expression and/or from a possible structural disturbance of DNA domains, which, with respect to the immunodeficiency, partially prevents the normal somatic recombinations in immunologically active cells.
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- S Schuffenhauer
- Abteilung für Pädiatrische Genetik der Kinderpoliklinik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
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Chen H, Tuck-Muller CM, Batista DA, Wertelecki W. Identification of supernumerary ring chromosome 1 mosaicism using fluorescence in situ hybridization. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1995; 56:219-33. [PMID: 7625449 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320560221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We report on a 15-year-old black boy with severe mental retardation, multiple congenital anomalies, and a supernumerary ring chromosome mosaicism. Fluorescence in situ hybridization with a chromosome 1 painting probe (pBS1) identified the ring as derived from chromosome 1. The karyotype was 46,XY/47,XY,+r(1)(p13q23). A review showed 8 reports of ring chromosome 1. In 5 cases, the patients had a non-supernumerary ring chromosome 1 resulting in partial monosomies of the short and/or long arm of chromosome 1. In 3 cases, the presence of a supernumerary ring resulted in partial trisomy of different segments of chromosome 1. In one of these cases the supernumerary ring was composed primarily of the centromere and the heterochromatic region of chromosome 1, resulting in normal phenotype. Our patient represents the third report of a supernumerary ring chromosome 1 resulting in abnormal phenotype.
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- H Chen
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA
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Amiel A, Fejgin M, Appelman Z, Shapiro I, Gaber E, Bachar A, Zamir R, Kedar I, Golbus M. Fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) as an aid to marker chromosome identification in prenatal diagnosis. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 1995; 59:103-7. [PMID: 7781851 DOI: 10.1016/0028-2243(94)01964-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Five cases of supernumerary marker chromosomes were identified in prenatal diagnosis as derived from chromosomes 18, X, and Y. One unexpected finding was in a case where the PCR was positive for the SRY gene while fluorescence in situ hybridization was positive for two X centromeres. In another case with an X derived supernumerary marker the newborn was phenotypically normal. Two women with fetal mar(18) and mar(Xp) decided to terminate the pregnancy. The fifth pregnancy had a karyotype of 46,XX,-15,+der(15)t(Y:15)(q11,23;p13). A phenotypically normal girl was born at term.
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- A Amiel
- Genetics Unit, Meir General Hospital, Israel
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Davies AF, Barber L, Murer-Orlando M, Bobrow M, Adinolfi M. FISH detection of trisomy 21 in interphase by the simultaneous use of two differentially labelled cosmid contigs. J Med Genet 1994; 31:679-85. [PMID: 7815435 PMCID: PMC1050076 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.31.9.679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Techniques have been reported in which fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) and cosmid probes are used to detect trisomy 21 (and other abnormalities involving chromosomes X, Y, 13, and 18) on uncultured amniocytes. However the detection rate of trisomy 21 is lower than for the other anomalies owing to a larger number of uninformative results and false negatives. We report the simultaneous use of two differentially labelled cosmid contigs to improve the detection rate of trisomy 21 on uncultured amniocyte samples thus allowing the prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome even if only few labelled nuclei are available.
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- A F Davies
- Division of Medical & Molecular Genetics, UMDS of Guy's Hospital, London, UK
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Bartsch O, Petersen MB, Stuhlmann I, Mau G, Frantzen M, Schwinger E, Antonarakis SE, Mikkelsen M. "Compensatory" uniparental disomy of chromosome 21 in two cases. J Med Genet 1994; 31:534-40. [PMID: 7966190 PMCID: PMC1049975 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.31.7.534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Two cases of growth failure, microcephaly, facial dysmorphism, muscular hypertonia, and severe psychomotor retardation are described. At birth, both cases had cytogenetic mosaicism in lymphocytes and skin fibroblasts, in case 1 ring chromosome 21 and monosomy 21 and in case 2, deletion of chromosome 21 and monosomy 21. At a later age the lymphocyte karyotype changed almost completely to 46,XX, but the fibroblast karyotype remained as before. DNA polymorphism analysis described elsewhere indicated that the 46,XX lymphocytes contained two identical chromosomes 21 (isodisomy), in case 1 inherited from the father and in case 2 from the mother. The isodisomy was the result of duplication of a chromosome in mitosis after the loss of the homologous abnormal chromosome ("compensatory isodisomy"). We report here that this cytogenetic mechanism can result in false normal cytogenetic findings. The phenotypes were attributed to the cells with monosomy 21 in case 1 and to the deletion and monosomy of chromosome 21 in case 2.
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- O Bartsch
- Institut für Klinische Genetik, Universitäts Klinikum der Technischen Universität, Dresden, Germany
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Michalová K, Bartsch O, Starý J, Jelínek J, Wiegant J, Bubanská E. Partial trisomy of 3q detected by chromosome painting in a case of juvenile chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1993; 71:67-70. [PMID: 8275454 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(93)90203-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Juvenile chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (JCMMoL) is a rare disease with no specific type of chromosome aberration yet delineated. We report a 2-year-old boy who had in his leukemic bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) cells the 46,XY,der(15)t(3;15)(q13.1;q26) karyotype. Phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated lymphocytes of peripheral blood had a normal 46,XY karyotype. The origin of the duplicated part of 3q was proved by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with the pHSR(sat III 15p) DNA probe and a chromosome 3-specific DNA library (i.e., chromosome painting). The chromosome finding in our case provides further proof of the close relationship between the rearrangement in region 3q13-->3q26 and the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Our patient has transformed into erythroleukemia [M6 according to the French-American-British (FAB) classification] during the course of the disease.
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- K Michalová
- 3rd Medical Department, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Verschraegen-Spae MR, van Roy N, de Perdigo A, de Paepe A, Speleman F. Molecular cytogenetic characterization of marker chromosomes found at prenatal diagnosis. Prenat Diagn 1993; 13:385-94. [PMID: 8341637 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970130511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The nature and origin of two de novo small marker chromosomes found at prenatal diagnosis were determined by fluorescence in situ hybridization using chromosome centromere-specific probes and chromosome-specific plasmid libraries. One marker was found in a mosaic state and was shown to be an i(18p). The second marker was characterized as an inv dup(22). We conclude that molecular cytogenetic analysis contributes to the identification of marker chromosomes and therefore facilitates genetic counselling and decision-making for the parents.
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Gravholt CH, Friedrich U, Caprani M, Jørgensen AL. Breakpoints in Robertsonian translocations are localized to satellite III DNA by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Genomics 1992; 14:924-30. [PMID: 1478673 DOI: 10.1016/s0888-7543(05)80113-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We characterized 21 t(13;14) and 3 t(14;21) Robertsonian translocations for the presence of DNA derived from the short arms of the translocated acrocentric chromosomes and identified their centromeres. Nineteen of these 24 translocation carriers were unrelated. Using centromeric alpha-repeat DNA as chromosome-specific probe, we found by in situ hybridization that all 24 translocation chromosomes were dicentric. The chromatin between the two centomeres did not stain with silver, and no hybridization signal was detected with probes for rDNA or beta-satellite DNA that flank the distal and proximal ends of the rDNA region on the short arm of the acrocentrics. By contrast, all 24 translocation chromosomes gave a distinct hybridization signal when satellite III DNA was used as probe. This result strongly suggests that the chromosomal rearrangements leading to Robertsonian translocations occur preferentially in satellite III DNA. We hypothesize that guanine-rich satellite III repeats may promote chromosomal recombination by formation of tetraplex structures. The findings localize satellite III DNA to the short arm of the acrocentric chromosomes distal to centromeric alpha-repeat DNA and proximal to beta-satellite DNA.
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- C H Gravholt
- Cytogenetic Laboratory, Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
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Gray JW, Kallioniemi A, Kallioniemi O, Pallavicini M, Waldman F, Pinkel D. Molecular cytogenetics: Diagnosis and prognostic assessment. Curr Opin Biotechnol 1992; 3:623-31. [PMID: 1369118 DOI: 10.1016/0958-1669(92)90006-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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This review describes molecular cytogenetic techniques for detection and characterization of genetic aberrations associated with human disease. The techniques of fluorescence in situ hybridization, primed in situ labeling and comparative genome hybridization are described, as are probes for repeated sequences, whole chromosomes and specific loci. Also reviewed are applications of these technologies to pre- and neonatal diagnosis and to the characterization of human malignancies.
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- J W Gray
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0808
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Zheng YL, Ferguson-Smith MA, Warner JP, Ferguson-Smith ME, Sargent CA, Carter NP. Analysis of chromosome 21 copy number in uncultured amniocytes by fluorescence in situ hybridization using a cosmid contig. Prenat Diagn 1992; 12:931-43. [PMID: 1494546 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970121113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A comparison of the use of chromosome 21-specific libraries, DOP-PCR 21 paints, yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clones, single cosmids, and a 21q cosmid contig as probes for the detection of the copy number of chromosome 21 in interphase cells by fluorescence in situ hybridization shows that the cosmid contig is a satisfactory probe for interphase analysis of chromosome 21. The contig cCMP21.a, which is 55 kb in length, is highly chromosome 21-specific and produces intense, compact signals in a high proportion of interphase cells. A retrospective blind analysis of coded uncultured amniotic fluid samples correctly detected four trisomy 21 cases out of 49 samples.
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- Y L Zheng
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, U.K
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Verma RS, Luke S. Variations in alphoid DNA sequences escape detection of aneuploidy at interphase by FISH technique. Genomics 1992; 14:113-6. [PMID: 1427817 DOI: 10.1016/s0888-7543(05)80291-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The advent of a new staining technique, termed fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), allows the rapid identification of the genomic constitution of an individual with aneuploidy even in interphase nuclei through the use of a series of chromosome-specific DNA probes, an approach termed "interphase cytogenetics." However, alphoid DNA sequences of every centromere are polymorphic (heteromorphic), and the number of targeted sequences may be below the detection level of a specific DNA probe, thus escaping detection and resulting in the imprecise identification of the chromosomal constitution at interphase. The limitations associated with the FISH technique have dire consequences which are emphasized here with an example in which the presence of an additional chromosome 21 in two siblings born consecutively with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) was not detected by "interphase cytogenetics." The copy number of alphoid DNA sequences of one of the paternal chromosomes 21 was low and resulted in discordance between domain numbers at interphase and actual chromosome numbers at metaphase in both children. This is an isolated incident that could have led to a misdiagnosis if FISH were the only test employed. Although the advantages of this technology are undeniably enormous, the present finding has made it apparent that precise standards and reliability of the procedure must be established prior to its routine application.
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- R S Verma
- Division of Genetics, Long Island College Hospital-State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn 11201
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Rauch A, Pfeiffer RA, Trautmann U, Liehr T, Rott HD, Ulmer R. A study of ten small supernumerary (marker) chromosomes identified by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Clin Genet 1992; 42:84-90. [PMID: 1424236 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1992.tb03145.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In seven cases additional minute chromosomes studied by FISH were identified as no. 3, 11, 15, 18, 21 and X. Findings were unexpected except for partial trisomy 21 in an adolescent with minor features of Down's syndrome. Moreover, an i(18p) in a mentally retarded dysmorphic child and an idic(15) in a child with Fallot tetralogy was confirmed. In a child with r(21), a supernumerary marker was shown to be derived from no. 21, while in the mother an additional marker idic(22) was noted.
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MESH Headings
- Amniocentesis
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Down Syndrome/genetics
- Facial Bones/abnormalities
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Intellectual Disability/genetics
- Male
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Mosaicism
- Pregnancy
- Skull/abnormalities
- Tetralogy of Fallot/genetics
- X Chromosome
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- A Rauch
- Institut für Humangenetik, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, FRG
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Callen DF, Eyre H, Yip MY, Freemantle J, Haan EA. Molecular cytogenetic and clinical studies of 42 patients with marker chromosomes. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1992; 43:709-15. [PMID: 1377870 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320430412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The molecular cytogenetic characterization and clinical details of 20 patients with marker chromosomes are presented. These 20 patients, together with another 22 patients previously published, represent a cohort in which the chromosomal origin of the marker chromosomes was successfully determined in all but one case. Examination of the pooled data suggests that the satellited markers derived from chromosomes 14, 15 (when metacentric or submetacentric), those whose origin is either 13 or 21, and those small ring autosomal markers derived from both alphoid and satellite II or III pericentric heterochromatin of chromosomes 1, 9, 15, and 16 are all associated with a low risk of phenotypic abnormality. The markers identified as i(18p), ring chromosomes derived from various autosomes, and satellited markers derived from chromosome 22 are associated with a high risk of phenotypic abnormality. The phenotype of patients with acrocentric markers derived from chromosome 15 was equivocal, perhaps as a result of imprinting. Additional data are required to confirm these trends. The mild mental retardation and abnormal face of a patient with a small ring chromosome derived from chromosome 4 are described. Identification of patients with small rings originating from particular chromosomes may allow the recognition of new syndromes.
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- D F Callen
- Department of Cytogenetics, Adelaide Children's Hospital, South Australia
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Gravholt CH, Friedrich U, Nielsen J. A 20-year-old male with partial trisomy 18q- as diagnosed by in situ hybridization. Hum Genet 1992; 88:711-2. [PMID: 1551683 DOI: 10.1007/bf02265309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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