A case of recurrent congenital fetal anomalies associated with a familial subtelomeric translocation

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 570-574

  Brackley, K J ^a   Kilby, M D ^a   Morton, J ^a   Whittle, M J ^a   Knight, S J L ^b   Flint, J ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptic translocations; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Multiple congenital abnormalities; Subtelomeric deletions

Indexed keywords

ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NEWBORN; PES EQUINOVARUS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT ABORTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TELOMERE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0033048717     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199906)19:6<570::AID-PD582>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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