Familial partial trisomy 8p without dysmorphic features and only mild mental retardation.
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Fluorescent in situ hybridization with probes specific for a chromosomal subregion and chromosome-specific libraries (chromosome painting) are important new methods for assessing chromosome rearrangements. In this paper we present four patients with additional chromosomal material on chromosome 8p who have been studied using G-banding techniques, chromosome painting and FISH with cosmid probes specific for the region 8p23.1-->8pter. In all cases we found a partial inversion duplication of 8p along with a deletion of the region 8p23.1-->8pter.
We report one patient with a de novo inversion duplication 18 (pter-->cen) and two cases of direct tandem duplication 18 (pter-->cen), one due to maternal inheritance and the other arising as mosaicism of unknown origin. The duplications are demonstrated by high resolution banding. They were verified by in situ hybridization with a paint specific for chromosome 18 and with DNA probe LI.84 specific for the centromere region of chromosome 18. FISH with the genomic DNA probe pHRR68 specific for 18p11.32 revealed a subtle deletion concomitantly involved in the case of inversion duplication 18p. The patients exhibit slight developmental delay/moderate mental retardation and only a few dysmorphic features. The literature on trisomy 18p is reviewed and the present cases are compared to it.