A case of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) associated with a de novo unbalanced 15q;17q reciprocal translocation presumptively resulting from the tertiary monosomic form of 3:1 meiotic disjunction is described. Twenty-three similar unbalanced translocations have been identified from the literature. The 2
Nonreciprocal and jumping translocations of 15q1→qter in Prader-Willi syndrome
✍ Scribed by Rivera, H. ;Zuffardi, O. ;Gargantini, L.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 678 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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