Analysis of a familial three way translocation involving chromosomes 3q, 6q, and 15q by high resolution banding and fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) shows two different unbalanced karyotypes in sibs

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 545-553

  Wieczorek, Dagmar ^a   Engels, Hartmut ^b   Viersbach, Renate ^b   Henke, Barbara ^a   Schwanitz, Gesa ^b   Passarge, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Partial monosomy 6 (q26 qter); Partial trisomy 15 (q26.1 qter); Partial trisomy 3 (q29 qter); Three way translocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME HIGH RESOLUTION BANDING ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PARACENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PARTIAL MONOSOMY; PARTIAL TRISOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SIBLING;

EID: 0031813399     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.35.7.545     Document Type: Article

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