Robertsonian (15q;15q) translocation in a child with Angelman syndrome: Evidence of uniparental disomy
β Scribed by Tonk, Vijay; Schultz, Roger A.; Christian, Susan L.; Kubota, Takeo; Ledbetter, David H.; Wilson, Golder N.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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β¦ Synopsis
A balanced Robertsonian translocation 45,XY,t(15q15q) was detected in a patient with mental retardation, microcephaly, and hypertonia. Deletion of the 15qllq13 region was unlikely based on fluorescence in situ hybridization studies that revealed hybridization of appropriate DNA probes to both arms of the Robertsonian chromosome. Inheritance of alleles from 13 highly polymorphic DNA markers on chromosome 15 showed paternal uniparental isodisomy. The clinical, cytogenetic, and molecular results are consistent with a diagnosis of Angelman syndrome.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex multiple anomaly syndrome that has been shown to result from deficient expression of paternal chromosome 15(q11-q13). In most cases, it is caused either by deletion of this region in the paternally inherited chromosome 15 or by maternal uniparental disomy (UP