We report on the prenatal diagnosis of a fetus with 46,XY and 46,XX cell lines with a normal male phenotype. Cytogenetic and molecular studies ruled out the possibility of maternal cell contamination and showed that all the X chromosomes present in both fetal cell lines were derived from a single ma
Origin of 46,XY/46,XY,r(19) mosaicism
โ Scribed by Yung, Jar-Fee ;Sobel, Daniel B. ;Hoo, Joe J.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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โฆ Synopsis
We report on a case of 46,XY/46,XY,r(19) mosaicism. The patient shows minimal clinical abnormality and the terminal deletions prerequisite for the ring formation are not microscopically discernible. The origin of the mosaicism is discussed. Firstly, the mosaicism may represent chimerism with a prezygotic origin of the ring chromosome; secondly, the ring chromosome could have arisen postzygotically; and thirdly, the ring could have been of a prezygotic origin with the apparently normal cells actually containing reopened rings. The consequences of these hypothesis on genetic counselling are discussed.
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