EDITOR—Duplication of proximal segments of the long arm of chromosome 10 is rare and results in a pattern of malformations and dysmorphic features that are distinct from those of the more common distal 10q trisomy syndrome. To our knowledge, only nine patients with proximal 10q trisomy have been documented. Well defined clinical features of proximal 10q trisomy syndrome are growth and developme...

MudP and MudQ elements were used to induce duplications in Salmonella enterica by formation of a triple crossover between two transduced fragments and the host chromosome. The large size (36 kb) of MudP and MudQ is a favorable trait for duplication formation, probably because homology length is a limiting factor for the central crossover. Additional requirements are a multiplicity of infection ...

Although chromosomal duplications are often deleterious, in some cases they enhance cells' abilities to tolerate specific genetic or environmental challenges. Identifying the genes that confer these conditionally beneficial effects to particular chromosomal duplications can improve our understanding of the genetic and molecular mechanisms that enable certain aneuploidies to persist in cell popu...

EDITOR—Duplication of proximal segments of the long arm of chromosome 10 is rare and results in a pattern of malformations and dysmorphic features that are distinct from those of the more common distal 10q trisomy syndrome. To our knowledge, only nine patients with proximal 10q trisomy have been documented. Well defined clinical features of proximal 10q trisomy syndrome are growth and developme...

Duplications of chromosome region 15q11q13 often occur as a supernumerary chromosome 15. Less frequently they occur as interstitial duplications [dup(15)]. We describe the clinical and molecular characteristics of three patients with de novo dup(15). The patients, two males and one female (ages 3-21 years), had nonspecific findings that included autistic behavior, hypotonia, and variable degree...

P artial trisomy 16p is a rare chromosomal anomaly in newborns: of the fewer than 30 carrier patients so far reported, most were born to parents with a balanced translocation involving the p arm of chromosome 16. Pure partial trisomy 16p has been reported in seven patients, three of whom (all showing behavioural problems with autistic traits) carried a tandem duplication of the (16)(p11.2–p12) ...

Partial duplication of the long arm of chromosome 1 has been described in more than 200 patients. In most of these cases, the duplication is the result of an unbalanced segregation of a parental balanced translocation. Patients with duplications of 1q are therefore monosomic for the other chromosomal material involved in the translocation. The phenotypic result of such chromosomal abnormalities...

It has been well established that the 5p deletion causes Cri du chat syndrome, typically characterized by a cat‑like cry, and that duplication of 18q causes Edwards syndrome; the two are rare genetic abnormalities that separately lead to physical and mental impairments. However, the severity of the clinicopathological characteristics that arise when these two aberrations occur in one patient is...

KIAA0187 is a gene of unknown function that maps to 10q11 and has been subject to recent duplication events. Here we analyze 18 human paralogs of this gene and show that paralogs of exons 14-23 were formed through satellite-associated pericentromeric-directed duplication, whereas paralogs of exons 1-9 were created via chromosome-specific satellite-independent duplications. In silico, Northern, ...

Partial duplication of genetic material is prevalent in eukaryotes and provides potential for evolution of new traits. Prokaryotes, which are generally haploid in nature, can evolve new genes by partial chromosome duplication, known as merodiploidy. Little is known about merodiploid formation during genetic exchange processes, although merodiploids have been serendipitously observed in early st...