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Partial trisomy 16q-.

Abstract

A 5-month-old female was found with a 16q- trisomy; her mother was the carrier of a balanced translocation 46,XX,t(15p+;16q-)(15p12;16q11). This is the first report in the literature of a liveborn with this chromosome abnormality.

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E Yunis, J T González, O M Torres de Caballero. 1977-10-14. Partial trisomy 16q-.. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00402163

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