Unbalanced and balanced Y;autosome translocations are rare structural rearrangements that constitute a heterogeneous group. According to Nielsen and Rasmussen, the frequency of these translocations in the general population is approximately 1 in 2000 (six cases out of 11 148 newborn infants). All these six cases were in an unbalanced form. In the majority of cases, there is a non-reciprocal tra...

HE flecked translocation, T(X;Z)Ct, in the mouse was first described by T c ATTANACH (1961). He showed that the translocation involves an exchange between the X chromosome and chromosome I and that the ,wild-type alleles of c and p are translocated to the X chromosome. The flecked ( f d ) translocation is regarded as a 3-break nonreciprocal translocation in which a piece from the central region...

A male infant with multiple congenital anomalies and psychomotor retardation was found to have a translocation resulting in partial trisomy for the distal part of chromosome 3p. An older sister with similar clinical findings had an identical karyotype. Chromosome studies in the phenotypically normal parents revealed a balanced translocation in the mother involving chromosomes 3, 11, and 18. An ...

A patient with Turner phenotype was found to carry two de novo chromosome aberrations: a 45,X line and a whole arm reciprocal translocation t(3;9). Fluorescence in situ hybridisation on metaphase cells using alpha satellite DNA for chromosome 3 and beta satellite and 'classical' satellite DNA for chromosome 9 showed that the centromeric region of chromosome 3 was retained in the 3q9q translocat...

Genetic linkage, molecular analysis, and in situ hybridization have identified TYR and D11S388 as markers flanking the chromosome 11 breakpoint in a large pedigree where a balanced translocation, t(1;11)(q43;q21), segregates with schizophrenia and related affective disorders. Somatic cell hybrids, separating the two translocation chromosomes from each other and from the normal homologues, have ...

Balanced chromosome translocations in either parent increase the risk of recurrent miscarriage, unbalanced chromosome rearrangements, congenital malformations, and mental retardation in liveborn offspring. Chromosome aberrations account for at least 50% of fetal losses prior to 15 weeks’ estimated gestation (EGA). Of these, 60% occur secondary to autosomal trisomies (Gardner and Sutherland, 200...

We describe the application of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in a case of suspected chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), cytogenetically characterized by a t(21;22) with no clear involvement of chromosome 9. The dual color FISH technique, performed using specific painting probes for chromosomes 9,21,22 and a BCR/ABL translocation probe, enabled us to confirm the diagnosis of CML by d...

One of the most striking cases of sex chromosome reorganization in Drosophila occurred in the lineage ancestral to Drosophila pseudoobscura, where there was a translocation of Y-linked genes to an autosome. These genes went from being present only in males, never recombining, and having an effective population size of 0.5N to a state of autosomal linkage, where they are passed through both sexe...

Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), subgroup M2, is associated with a nonrandom chromosomal translocation, t(8;21)(q22,q22). The oncogene c-mos also has been localized to the q22 band on chromosome 8. There is also evidence that genes on chromosome 21 may be important in the development of leukemia. To determine whether the c-mos oncogene has been translocated in AML-M2 with this translocation an...