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Trisomy 2q.

Abstract

Two unrelated patients with trisomy 2q32 leads to q37, resulting from maternal balanced translocations t(2; 13) (q32 q33) and t(2; 15) (q32 q26) are reported. Conparison of the clinical findings suggests that trisomy 2q is associated with a rather characteristic constellation of symptoms and malformations.

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B Dallapiccola, A Forabosco, A Calabro. 1975. Trisomy 2q.. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001566000010424

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