Fragile site long arm chromosome 16
✍ Scribed by K. Sørensen; J. Nielsen; V. Holm; J. Haahr
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 258 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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✦ Synopsis
A fragile site at the long arms (q21) of chromosome 16 was found in two persons, each of whom became the parent of a child with a de novo structural chromosome abnormality--a balanced autosomal translocation and an autosomal deletion. The question of an increased risk of structural chromosome abnormalities in the offspring of persons with fragile site long arm 16 is discussed.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
The rare autosomal fragile site, fra (16) (q22), is the most common of all rare autosomal fragile sites and has a heterozygote frequency of about 5%. Evidence for it was found following the segregation expected from a simple codominant trait with complete penetrance; this is in contrast to a variety