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A 4-month-old Japanese girl with partial monosomy 21 was described. The patient has craniofacial anomalies, a short neck, wide-set nipples, anal atresia, deformed feet, hypertonia, intrauterine growth retardation, and mental deficiency. RFA- and high-resolution GTG-banding chromosome analyses, and Southern- and slot-blot analyses interpreted her karyotype as 45,XX, −2, −21, +der(2)t(2;21)(q37.3;q22.1). The origin of thisde novo translocation ascertained by analyses with both QFQ-heteromorphisms and a Fr8-77/BamHI RFLP was paternal. Comparison of the patient with previously reported patients confirmed that her manifestations are consistent with those of monosomy for 21pter-q21. Based on the results of molecular analyses on the present patient, a DNA clone, Fr8-77 (D21S82), was assigned to pter-q21.
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This study was in part supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan (No. 63480472).
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Abe, K., Deng, HX., Harada, N. et al. Monosomy for 21pter-q21: Case report and assignment of a DNA clone (Fr8-77) to the deleted segment. Jap J Human Genet 35, 303–310 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883752
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