Association of schizophrenia and partial trisomy of chromosome 5p. A case report.

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A normal balanced chromosome 5 translocation carrier (5:14) (p14.1; q32.3) produced one offspring with a 5p deletion syndrome (cri du chat syndrome) and two with a partial trisomy (one with schizophrenia and the other with refractory epilepsy). We had hypothesized that the translocation might be complex and involve 5q, overlapping with a schizophrenia associated area described by Bassett et al., (1988)....

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