Massively parallel sequencing of DNA molecules in the plasma of pregnant women has been shown to allow accurate and noninvasive prenatal detection of fetal trisomy 21. However, whether the sequencing approach is as accurate for the noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 13 and 18 is unclear due to the lack of data from a large sample set. We studied 392 pregnancies, among which 25 involved a...

John Hilton Edwards [7] first described the symptoms of the genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18?one of the most common forms of human trisomy, which occurs when cells have an extra copy of a chromosome, in 1960. Trisomy 18 [5], also known as Edwards Syndrome [6], occurs approximately once per 6000 live births and is second in frequency only to Trisomy 21, or Down?s Syndrome, as an autosomal tr...

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 ...

Trisomy 21 is associated with high maternal serum concentrations of intact human chorionic gonadotrophin alpha(HCG) and free beta-HCG whereas these concentrations are markedly decreased in trisomy 18. In this study, we investigated the effect of trisomy 21 and 18 on endogenous HCG concentrations and luteinizing hormone (LH)/HCG receptor expression in placental villous tissue in eight trisomy 21...

Cytogenetic studies (CG) of 475 chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cases showed trisomy 12 in 6.1% or 26% of patients with abnormal karyotypes. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) detected trisomy 12 in 35% of 117 CLL patients. Only 34.6% of cases detected by FISH were detected by CG. Twelve patients had low levels of trisomic cells (4% to 11%) relative to clonal B cells (47.5% to 86%), s...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Although the finding of trisomy 12 in B-cell malignancies has been extensively documented especially in B-CLL, little is known about the clonal involvement of different tissues and there are few sequential studies documenting the development of trisomy 12 during the course of the disease. The aim of this study was, therefore, to: 1) ascertain the prevalence of trisomy 1...

In a series of 2922 karyotyped spontaneous abortions, 62 were found to be trisomic for chromosome 13, 46 having a simple trisomy and 16 a translocation trisomy. The epidemiology of this series of trisomy 13 conceptuses is presented and compared to that of trisomy 13 ascertained from other populations. In most compared parameters the trisomy 13 spontaneous abortions are very similar. However, th...

OBJECTIVES To derive a model and examine the performance of first-trimester screening for trisomy 18 by maternal age, fetal nuchal translucency (NT) thickness, and maternal serum free beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) and pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A). METHODS Prospective combined screening for trisomy 21 was performed at 11 + 0 to 13 + 6 weeks in 56 893 singleton ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between trisomies 13, 18, and 21 and craniofacial malformations detected by prenatal sonography. DESIGN During a 29-year period (1976 through 2004), prenatal sonographic findings of 69 fetuses with trisomy 13; 171 fetuses with trisomy 18; 302 fetuses with trisomy 21; and 17 fetuses with other trisomies were evaluated retrospectively, after fetal karyoty...

the interpretation of supernumerary chromosome is important for genetic counseling and prognosis. here, we used snp array and conventional karyotyping method to identify a denovo marker chromosome originated from chromosome 22 and 11 in a newborn transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit of shahid sadoughi hospital in 2015.  clinical abnormalities identified in the newborn were dysmorphic...