Article
Recombinant Down syndrome: a case report and literature review.
Clinical genetics - 1 Feb 2001
Lazzaro S J, Speevak M D, Farrell S A
Abstract excerpt
We report a case of a child with features of Down syndrome (DS) but with an atypical karyotype. Initial chromosome analysis was 46,XX,dup(21q).ish 21(wcp21+). The father's chromosomes were normal. However, the mother was found to have mosaicism for a pericentric inversion of chromosome 21 (19/30 cells). The revised chromosome result of the child was 46,XX,rec(21)dup(21q)inv(21)(p12q21.1)mat. A literature review...
Topics
- Child
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Banding
- Chromosome Inversion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21
- Down Syndrome
- Female
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Infant
- Male
- Phenotype
- Trisomy
