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Diagnosis of familial Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome due to a paternal cryptic chromosomal rearrangement by conventional and molecular cytogenetic techniques.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2013
Venegas-Vega Carlos A, Fernández-Ramírez Fernando, Zepeda Luis M, Nieto-Martínez Karem, Gómez-Laguna Laura, Garduño-Zarazúa Luz M, Berumen Jaime, Kofman Susana, Cervantes Alicia
Abstract excerpt
The use of conventional cytogenetic techniques in combination with fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarrays is necessary for the identification of cryptic rearrangements in the diagnosis of chromosomal syndromes. We report two siblings, a boy of 9 years and 9 months of age and his 7-years- and 5-month-old sister, with the classic Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS)...
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