Mosaicism for an ectopic NOR at 8pter and a complex rearrangement of chromosome 8 in a patient with severe psychomotor retardation

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-60

  Felbor, U ^a   Knotgen N ^a   Schams, G ^b   Buwe, A ^a   Steinlein, C ^a   Schmid, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Ctr Children Devmtl Disord H   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 8P; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; LYMPHOCYTE; MARKER CHROMOSOME; METAPHASE; MOSAICISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; TELOMERE;

CENTROMERE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOSAICISM; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; TRISOMY;

EID: 3042598877     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078561     Document Type: Article

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