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Historical and Clinical Perspectives on Chromosomal Translocations.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2000
Wilch Ellen S, Morton Cynthia C
Abstract excerpt
Chromosomal translocations, rearrangements involving the exchange of segments between chromosomes, were documented in humans in 1959. The first accurately reported clinical phenotype resulting from a translocation was that of Down syndrome. In a small percentage of Down syndrome cases, an extra 21q is provided by a Robertsonian translocation chromosome, either occurring de novo or inherited from a phenotypically...
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