Recombinant 8 syndrome: the pool of Hispanic pericentric inversion 8 carriers expands numerically and geographically.

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Recombinant 8 syndrome is a well-established syndrome with mental and developmental retardation and usually severe cardiac anomalies. A carrier parent will produce affected offspring in 6% of pregnancies and carrier offspring in 53% of such pregnancies. Four New Mexican kindres ascertained by the discovery of four apparently unrelated probands with cytogenetically confirmed recombinant 8 syndrome were studied. We...

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