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C Zavala

Publications and source records attributed to C Zavala.

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Brachydactyly type B and symphalangism in different members of a Mexican family.

A patient with typical brachydactyly type B is described. By history, 4 generations had some affected members and it was possible to examine a sister and 2 children of the proposita. These individuals in addition to the brachydactyly had symphalangism, an abnormality not previously described in association with brachydactyly type B.

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6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase: hemizygous manifestation in a patient with leukemia.

In a study of 41 patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia, two were found to have the 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase heterozygous phenotype A-B, and two had the phenotype characteristic of Pd(B) homozygosity. Since one of the two with Pd(B) homozygosity was the mother of two children with the A phenotype, it was presumed that she carried a Pd(A) gene not expressed in her blood cells. his was confirmed by electrophoretic analysis of her fibroblasts, which had the A-B phenotypic pattern. Gene deletion is considered to be the most likely explanation.

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Incongruent parenthood in a Mexican mestizo population as determined by HLA typing.

The incidence of incongruent parenthood was determined by confronting the declared familial relationship of 98 father-mother-son/daughter trinomials (drawn from the Centro Médico Nacional-IMSS (CMN-IMSS) Kidney Transplant Program) with their HLA-A and B antigens. Fourteen (14.3%) discrepant cases were found: three each with the putative father (3.1%) or with the putative mother (3.1%), two with either father or mother (though impossible to determine precisely with whom) (2.0%), and six with both parents (6.1%). Several possible explanations of these findings were considered, such as out-of-wedlock pregnancies, complex known or unknown, declared or undeclared social circumstances frequently related to the population studied (i.e. imminent kidney transplantation) and technical pitfalls. These data underscore the level of possible "noise" and imprecision in population genetics; genetic-epidemiology and transplantation programs.

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