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- Title
Prenatal diagnosis of a double bisatellited marker with an unusual copy number ratio.
- Authors
Waters, J. J.; Ferguson-Smith, M. E.; Carter, N.; Alexander, J. L.; Hodgson, S. V.
- Abstract
Prenatal diagnosis, by amniocentesis, revealed mosaicism with respect to a bisatellited, apparently dicentric, DA/DAPI positive, de novo marker. The following cell lines were observed in decreasing order of frequency: 46,XX > 48.XX, + mar, + mar » 47,XX, + mar. The pregnancy was terminated and post-mortem examination revealed an apparently normal fetus. Cytogenetic studies of fetal and placental tissues revealed approximately the same level of mosaicism together with the unusual copy number ratio seen in the amniotic fluid cultures. Non-disjunction at the first post-zygotic mitotic division giving rise to a mosaic: 46,XX/ 48,XX, + mar, + mar followed by subsequent mitotic instability of the marker could account for the unusual copy number ratio.
- Publication
Prenatal Diagnosis, 1990, Vol 10, Issue 10, p677
- ISSN
0197-3851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pd.1970101008