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Second meiotic nondisjunction of the rearranged chromosome in a familial reciprocal 5/13 translocation
1 Oct 1991
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We describe a 20-week-gestation male fetus with partial dup(5p) and proximal dup(13q), 47,XY,t(5;13)(p15;q21), + der(13)t(5;13)(p15;q21) mat. This finding is attributable to second meiotic nondisjunction of the rearranged chromosome in a maternal balanced reciprocal translocation. To the best of our knowledge, there have been only 3 previous reports of a similar error in the segregation of the rearranged...
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