Recurrent trisomy 21: Four cases in three generations

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 430-435

  Gair, J L ^a   Arbour, L ^a   Rupps, R ^a   Jiang, R ^a   Bruyere H ^a   Robinson, W P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Nondisjunction; Trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 21Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 21; DOWN SYNDROME; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KARYOTYPE; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOSAICISM; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TRISOMY 21;

CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 27544498145     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2005.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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