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[Severe mental retardation and slight dysmorphism in a child with a bisatellite extrachromosome: inversion
La Pediatria Medica E Chirurgica : Medical and Surgical Pediatrics
|September 1, 1982
Abstract:
A de novo tetrasomy 15 has been reported, in a 6 years old child. The patient had severe mental retardation an minimal physical stigmata, consisting in slight skeletal and facial dismorphism. Cytogenetic analysis showed that extrachromosome, G-like long, was bisatellited and dicentric and was interpreted either as an inversion duplication 15 or as 15; G or D translocation.