Familial translocation t(17;22), including the segregation in five consecutive abortuses

A cytogenetic study of a family with t(17;22) is presented. The translocation has been detected in four generations. The proband was a female who has had ten pregnancies, seven of which had resulted in spontaneous abortion. The material of five aborted fetuses was available for cytogenetic examination. The karyotypes revealed four different forms of chromosomal imbalance, most of them due to 3:1 segregation. The only living proband's offspring was born after amniocentesis and had a balanced translocation t(17;22).