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Hypomelanosis of Ito: involvement of chromosome aberrations in this syndrome.
Annales de genetique - 1 Jan 1991
Lenzini E, Bertoli P, Artifoni L, Battistella P A, Baccichetti C, Peserico A
Abstract excerpt
The authors report on cytogenetic results of six patients with hypomelanosis of Ito. Karyotypes from peripheral lymphocytes prometaphases and skin fibroblasts metaphases were normal. A review of the literature revealed no specific chromosomal abnormality but a close association between mosaicism and HI syndrome. The X-chromosome was involved in 53% of the abnormal cases.
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