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Tetrasomy of the short arm of chromosome 9: prenatal diagnosis and further delineation of the phenotype.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Mar 1991
Schaefer G B, Domek D B, Morgan M A, Muneer R S, Johnson S F
Abstract excerpt
A fetus with multiple malformations was identified by prenatal ultrasound investigation. Cordocentesis and fetal lymphocyte chromosome analysis demonstrated a model number of 47 chromosomes. The extra chromosome material was identified as an isochromosome of the entire short arm of chromosome 9 with no involvement of the heterochromatic region of the long arm [47,XY, + i(9p)]. This represents the first report of...
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