Del(l8p) shown to be a cryptic translocation using a multiprobe FISH assay for subtelomeric chromosome rearrangements

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 722-726

  Horsley, Sharon W ^a   Knight, Samantha J L ^a   Nixon, John ^b   Huson, Susan ^b   Fitchett, Maggie ^b   Boone, Reginald A ^a   Hilton Jones, David ^c   Flint, Jonathan ^a   Kearney, Lyndal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptic translocations; Del(l8p); Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH); Subtelomeric chromosome rearrangements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 18P; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TECHNIQUE; TELOMERE; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; KERATOSIS; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; KERATOSIS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031595770     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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