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J Azumi

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The Sydney line and the simian line: the incidence in Down's syndrome patients with mental retardation and Japanese controls.

The frequencies of the Sydney line and the simian line on the palms of 694 normal Japanese subjects (500 males and 194 females), 180 with Down's syndrome (113 males and 67 females) and 107 with mental retardation (62 males and 45 females) were studied and the following conclusions were obtained: the frequency of the Sydney line tends to be lower in normal Japanese controls than in Australian and North American controls, and the simian line tends to be higher in normal Japanese controls than in Australian and North American controls. Of these two palmar creases, the simian line is more useful in identification of Down's syndrome patients than is the Sydney line in the Japanese population.

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A new approach in the evaluation of chromosome variants in man, III. Pairs with established Q or C variable sites.

A new approach is proposed for the evaluation of chromosome variants, which uses a scanning microdensitometer in the determination of the area of a variant. Results are assigned into five classes based on the difference from an average in terms of standard deviation. In the first two papers of the present series, results obtained in C variants of 1,9, and 16 and LBA variants in 12 pairs lacking an established variable site (e.g., nos. 2, 5, 6, etc.) were described. In the present communication, results obtained in pairs with a known Q-variable site are described. When a variable region outside of +/- 1 SD of the average is defined as a variant, 9, 11, 7, 10, and 10 variants are detected in pairs 13, 14, 15, 21, and 22, respectively, from 12 individuals by means of LBA preparations, in addition to Q variants, which can be detected by the standard QFQ technique.

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A new approach in the evaluation of chromosome variants in man. II. Pairs without Q or C (qh) variants.

Chromosome variants were evaluated on the basis of their DNA-replication pattern (LBA). The size of late-replicating centromeric heterochromatin of chromosomes 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, and 20, i.e., pairs without Q or C (qh) variants, was measured by means of a microdensitometer. The results were expressed in area, related to that of a euchromatic segment of a given chromosome, and were assigned into five classes based on the difference in standard deviation from an average relative size. LBA variants in each of 12 pairs were found in 29%-42% of the chromosomes.

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