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Jacobsen syndrome and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome caused by a parental pericentric inversion inv(11)(p15q24).
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2006
Gadzicki D, Baumer A, Wey E, Happel C M, Rudolph C, Tönnies H, Neitzel H, Steinemann D, Welte K, Klein C, Schlegelberger B
Abstract excerpt
Here we report on a male infant presenting the typical pattern of Jacobsen syndrome including trigonocephaly, thrombocytopenia, congenital heart defect, urethral stenosis, and partial agenesis of the corpus callosum. Conventional karyotyping, FISH, SKY and CGH analyses showed that the region distal to the MLL locus on 11q23 was lost and replaced by the distal region of 11p, leading to a partial trisomy of 11p and...
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