Over the last years various whole genome amplification (WGA) methods have been established for genetic investigations from a limited number of cells or small quantities of DNA but not for molecular an...
We report a healthy woman with two abortions who is a carrier for a rare heterozygous double recombinant of an inv(5) chromosome, karyotype 46,XX,rec(5)dup(5p) inv(5)(p13q22),rec(5)dup(5q)inv(5)(p13q2...
OBJECTIVE: To review all cases with segmental and/or complex uniparental disomy (UPD) and to discuss the impact of these cases on medical genetics. DESIGN: Searching for published reports in PubMed an...
Trisomy 17 mosaicism is one of the rarest autosomal trisomies in humans. Thus far, only 23 cases have been described, most of them detected prenatally. In only five instances has mosaicism been demons...
INTRODUCTION: Growth retardation has been reported in most cases of maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) 7 and 14, but has never been evaluated in a systematic approach. In this study, an analysis is pre...