Mosaicism for an ectopic NOR at 8pter and a complex rearrangement of chromosome 8 in a patient with severe psychomotor retardation |
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Authors: | Felbor U Knötgen N Schams G Buwe A Steinlein C Schmid M |
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Institution: | Department of Human Genetics, University of Würzburg, Biozentrum, Würzburg, Germany. |
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Abstract: | We describe a 3-year-old girl with severe delays in mental and motor skills, a history of generalized seizures, and subtle dysmorphic features. Conventional cytogenetics revealed a mosaic karyotype. A de novo ectopic NOR at the telomeric region of the short arm of one chromosome 8 (8ps) was found in 90% of lymphocyte and in 98% of fibroblast metaphases. A small NOR-bearing marker chromosome and a large derivative chromosome 8 without short arm satellites (der(8)) were present in the remaining cells. FISH with a probe specific for centromeres 14 and 22 labeled both the telomeric region of 8ps and the small marker centromere. Der(8) included an inverted duplication of 8p and a rearranged duplication of 8q but lacked a second centromere. A subtelomeric probe for 8p revealed a cryptic deletion in 8ps and der(8). Thus, the karyotype represents a combination of submicroscopic partial monosomy 8pter and mosaic trisomy 8. |
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