Prenatal diagnosis of low-level mosaicism for a small XIST-negative supernumerary ring X chromosome in a nondysmorphic male fetus [9]

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 387-391

  Chen, Chih Ping ^a,b,c   Lin, Shuan Pei ^a   Lin, Chyi Chyang ^d   Li, Yueh Chun ^e   Hsieh, Lie Jiau ^d   Chern, Schu Rern ^a   Lee, Chen Chi ^a   Chen, Li Feng ^a   Hua, Hui Min ^f   Wang, Wayseen ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMNIOCENTESIS; APGAR SCORE; CASE REPORT; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; DOWN SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MALE; MATERNAL SERUM; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SPECTRAL KARYOTYPING; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MOSAICISM; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RING CHROMOSOMES; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 33646073729     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1416     Document Type: Letter

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