Normal phenotype with paternal uniparental isodisomy for chromosome 21.

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Normal phenotype with paternal uniparental isodisomy for chromosome 21.

American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 1993

Blouin J L, Avramopoulos D, Pangalos C, Antonarakis S E

Abstract excerpt

Uniparental disomy (UPD) involving several different chromosomes has been described in several cases of human pathologies. In order to investigate whether UPD for chromosome 21 is associated with abnormal phenotypes, we analyzed DNA polymorphisms in DNA from a family with de novo Robertsonian tra...

Topics

Adult
Chromosome Aberrations
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21
Genotype
Humans
Karyotyping
Male
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic
Reference Values

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