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Identification of mosaicism in Prader-Willi syndrome using fluorescent in situ hybridization.
American journal of medical genetics - 30 Dec 1996
Mowery-Rushton P A, Hanchett J M, Zipf W B, Rogan P K, Surti U
Abstract excerpt
We report on our findings of 4 patients with mosaicism for a deletion of chromosome 15, most commonly associated with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). We examined a series of typical and atypical PWS patients in order to identify cytogenetically undetected deletions, using fluorescence in situ hybridization. In 4 of the patients analyzed we detected a deletion in 14-60% of peripheral blood leukocytes, using four...
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