Mosaic tetraploidy in a two-year-old female |
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Authors: | Thaddeus E Kelly Jack M Rary |
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Institution: | Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A. |
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Abstract: | A 24-month-old female with severe physical and mental retardation is described. Peripheral lymphocytes demonstrated tetraploid/diploid mosaicism. That this does not represent an artifact in vitro was supported by the finding of buccal mucosal cells with two Barr bodies and tetraploid/diploid mosaicism in fibroblasts and bone marrow cells. |
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