A 5-year-old boy with severe mental handicap, dysmorphic stigmata and a tetrasomy 21 in fibroblasts is reported. Blood lymphocytes of the patient have a normal karyotype. The origin of this tetrasomy 21 mosaicism is discussed.
IDENTIFICATION OF SEVERE MENTAL HANDICAP
โ Scribed by BERYL SMITH; C. J. PHILLIPS
- Book ID
- 108679701
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 439 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0305-1862
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