Interstitial Deletion of Long Arm of Chromosome 2(q3 lq33)
โ Scribed by Yoshifumi Hiroyama; Hiroyuki Hatanaka; Tsuyomu Ikenoue; Yoshimori Ishihara
- Book ID
- 118711568
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1328-8067
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Interstitial deletions of the long arm of chromosome 4 are rare. Different breakpoints are involved. Only one of the patients had a very similar deletion to that of the present case. Both had low birth weight at term; weight, length and head circumference less than the third centile; epicanthic fold
We describe a malformed newborn girl with an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 2 (karyotype: 46, XX, del (2) (q31q33)). This is the first report of this particular chromosome abnormality that includes autopsy findings. Comparison with previous cases in the literature suggests that