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Presumptive long arm deletion of chromosome 8: a new syndrome?

✍ Scribed by K. Taysi; M. J. Noetzel; A. W. Strauss


Book ID
104700328
Publisher
Springer
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
296 KB
Volume
51
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-6717

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✦ Synopsis


This communication describes an infant with growth and psychomotor retardation and severe congenital malformations, who was found to have an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 8: 46,XY,del(8) (q13q22). Comparison with the only other previously reported patient with a deletion of a similar chromosomal segment suggested that deletion of the long arm of chromosome 8 may constitute a clinically recognizable syndrome.


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