منابع مشابه
Fertility in a male with trisomy 21.
We review the published reports on reproduction in cases of non-mosaic trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome) and present the first fully documented case of a non-mosaic male with Down's syndrome fathering a pregnancy, a fact which has important implications in the light of caring for these people in the community.
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Trisomy 21 mosaicism in a woman with two children with trisomy 21 Down's syndrome* Summary. Trisomy 21 mosaicism was identified by fluorescent quinacrine banding in a phenotypically normal mother, who gave birth to two children with trisomy 21 Down's syndrome. Trisomy 21 Down's syndrome associated with maternal mosaicism was first described by Smith et al in 1962. Since then there have been at ...
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BACKGROUND Chromosomal abnormalities frequently are associated with impairment or arrest of spermatogenesis in mammals but are compatible with fertility in female carriers of the same anomaly. In the case of trisomy, mice have extra genomic DNA as well as the chromosomal abnormality, usually present as an extra, unpaired chromosome. Thus, impairment of spermatogenesis in trisomic males could be...
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Patients with Down syndrome (DS) display a unique spectrum of malignancies, with a 10- to 20-fold higher risk of acute leukemias, and a markedly lower incidence of solid tumors. This review discusses the current understanding of the basis for this distinctive pattern of cancer incidence and the clinical and biologic features of the malignant disorders most frequent in DS individuals: transient ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Genetics
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1468-6244
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.29.2.141