Reihenuntersuchungen der gonosomalen Chromosomenaberrationen bei männlichen Geisteskranken

✍ Scribed by M. Trixler; G. Kosztolányi; K. Méhes

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 573 KB
• Volume: 221
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1433-8491
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00418485

✦ Synopsis

The authors report of sex chromosome aberration screenings among the patients of the male psychiatric department, University Medical School, P~cs. 310 patients were investigated. The X-chromatin was detected in buccal smears with thionin-staining and the Y-chromatin in peripheric blood smears with quinacrin-siaining by the help of fluorescentoptical technique, Two Klinefelter-patients and one YY-patient were diagnosiized. The Klinefelter-patients were psychopaths and mentally subnormal, the YY-paiient was a paranoid schizophrenic.

The incidence of I<:linefelter syndrome is 0. 64%, that of the YY syndrome is 0.32%. Mental relations of sex chromosome aberrations are discussed in detail.