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Prenatal diagnosis of a 46,XX,inv(12)pat/47,XX,i(Xq),inv(12)pat

✍ Scribed by Maria Varela; Nancy Wang; Mabel Cerrillo


Book ID
104697277
Publisher
Springer
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
581 KB
Volume
75
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-6717

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✦ Synopsis


A 46,XX,inv(12)pat/47,XX,i(Xq),inv(12)pat was diagnosed prenatally in a 36-year-old woman whose husband was a known carrier of a pericentric inversion of chromosome 12. The diagnosis was confirmed in fetal tissue. Terminal bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) labelling demonstrated that in the line with 46 chromosomes one X was late replicating, while one X and the i(Xq) were late replicating in 100% of the cells with 47 chromosomes. We present the first case of this type of sex chromosome mosaicism. Genetic counseling presented difficulties since it was not possible to predict the fetal phenotype.