Trisomy 3 mosaicism in a live‐born infant

Catherine Metaxotou, C Tsenghi, I. Bitzos, M. Strataki‐Benetou, Ariadni Kalpini-Mavrou, N. Matsaniotis

Clinical Genetics · 1981 · 20 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

We report on the first case of trisomy 3 detected in the lymphocytes of a live-born infant who died at the age of 5 months. A normal 46,XX karyotype was found in skin fibroblast cultures, which could account for the child's viability and lack of gross phenotypic malformations.

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