Article
Genetic counselling in carriers of reciprocal chromosomal translocations involving short arm of chromosome X.
Annales de genetique - 1 Jan 2000
Panasiuk Barbara, Usinskiené Ruta, Kostyk Ewa, Rybałko Alicja, Stasiewicz-Jarocka Beata, Krzykwa Bogustawa, Pieńkowska-Grela Barbara, Kucinskas Vaidutis, Michalova Kyra, Midro Alina T
Abstract excerpt
A central concept in genetic counselling is the estimation of the probability of occurrence of unbalanced progeny at birth and other unfavourable outcomes of pregnancy (miscarriages, stillbirths and early death). The estimation of the occurrence probability for individual carriers of four different X-autosome translocations with breakpoints at Xp, namely t(X;5)(p22.2;q32), t(X;6)(p11.2;q21), t(X;7)(p22.2;p11.1),...
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