Volume 80, Issue 2 pp. 163-168
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Boy with an interstitial 1q (q31q41) duplication confirmed by fluorescent in situ hybridisation

Anna Sillén

Anna Sillén

Department of Clinical Genetics, Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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Claes Wadelius

Claes Wadelius

Department of Clinical Genetics, Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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Göran Annerén

Corresponding Author

Göran Annerén

Department of Clinical Genetics, Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Department of Pediatrics, Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Clinical Genetics, Uppsala University Children's Hospital, S-751 85 Uppsala, SwedenSearch for more papers by this author

Abstract

A 20-year-old man with multiple anomalies caused by a de novo duplication of the long arm of chromosome 1 is presented. The patient suffers from severe mental retardation, epilepsy, bronchial stenosis, and minor anomalies (e.g., hirsutism, midface dysplasia, and beaked nose). A G-banding analysis of the patient's chromosomes showed additional segments in chromosome 1. Fluorescent in situ hybridisation analysis with a chromosome 1 painting probe showed that the extra material originated from chromosome 1. Further analysis with cosmid probes demonstrated that the region involving chromosome bands 1q31 to q41 is present in a tandem duplication. Am. J. Med. Genet. 80:163–168, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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