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A case of apparent trisomy 21 without the Down's syndrome phenotype.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 1997
Avramopoulos D, Kennerknecht I, Barbi G, Eckert D, Delabar J M, Maunoury C, Hallberg A, Petersen M B
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We describe a case of apparent trisomy 21 that does not fulfill the criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Down's syndrome (DS). Our patient was subjected to karyotype analysis and found to have full, non-mosaic trisomy 21 in both blood lymphocytes and skin fibroblasts, while examination of the term placenta, which was performed earlier in the course of a different study, had shown mosaicism (73%) for trisomy 21....
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