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Prader-Willi syndrome in a child with mosaic trisomy 15 and mosaic triplo-X: a molecular analysis.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1997
Devriendt K, Matthijs G, Claes S, Legius E, Proesmans W, Cassiman J J, Fryns J P
Abstract excerpt
A 3.3 year old girl with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and mosaicism for two aneuploidies, 47,XXX and 47,XX,+15, is presented. The triplo-X cell line was found in white blood cells and fibroblasts, the trisomy 15 cell line in 50% of the fibroblasts. Using methylation studies of the PWS critical region and by polymorphic microsatellite analysis, the existence of uniparental maternal heterodisomy for chromosome 15...
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