Article
[Identification of sex chromosome markers using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)].
Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion - 1 Jan 2000
González-del-Angel A, Blanco B, del Castillo V, Carnevale A
Abstract excerpt
From 6 to 15% of the patients with Turner syndrome have a mosaic karyotype, i.e. a 45,X cell line and another with a small sex chromosome marker of undetermined origin which may be a ring or a centric fragment. It is important to establish whether this marker chromosome derives from a Y chromosome as this implies that the patient has a high risk of developing gonadoblastoma. The objective of the present paper was...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Cells, Cultured
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosome Banding
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Gonadoblastoma
- Humans
