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Mosaic Down syndrome in a patient with low-level mosaicism detected by microarray.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Dec 2010
Leon Eyby, Zou Ying S, Milunsky Jeff M
Abstract excerpt
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common aneuploidy in liveborns with an estimated frequency of 1 in 650-1,000 births. Approximately 1-2% of all live-born DS individuals have mosaicism. The correlation between the percentage of mosaicism and the severity of the phenotype in mosaic trisomy 21 has been determined in previous studies. Patients with low percent of trisomy 21 have less phenotypic manifestations, higher...
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