Double aneuploidy: 48,XXY,+18 in a bedouin boy

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-244

  Al Awadi, S A ^a   Al Naggar, R L ^a   Tayel, S M ^a   Uma, R ^b  

^a AL SABAH HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b AL JAHRA HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Double aneuploidy; Klinefelter's syndrome; Trisomy 18

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIPHYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOSAICISM; OSSIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHROMOSOME; TRISOMY 18;

EID: 0032836357     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026099     Document Type: Article

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