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Delineation of the dup5q phenotype by molecular cytogenetic analysis in a patient with dup5q/del 5p (cri du chat).
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Mar 2002
Levy Brynn, Dunn Teresa M, Kern Jeffrey H, Hirschhorn Kurt, Kardon Nataline B
Abstract excerpt
An infant girl presented with multiple congenital abnormalities and a distinctive mewing cry. Her karyotype was 46,XX,add5p. Chromosome analysis on the mother revealed an apparently balanced pericentric inversion of chromosome 5, with the precise position of the breakpoints not clearly discernable by GTG banding, 46,XX,inv(5)(p15.2/3?q35.1?). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) studies using a commercial...
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