Trisomy 12 mosaicism in phenotypically normal fetuses following prenatal detection

Autor: Nancy L. Fisher, Peter Osella, Thomas Maker, Aubrey Milunsky, Shivanand R. Patil, Roger A. Williamson, Frederick W. Luthardt, Herman E. Wyandt, Charles Y. Kawada
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Prenatal Diagnosis. 10:569-574
ISSN: 1097-0223
0197-3851
Popis: We report three cases of amniocentesis in which mosaicism for trisomy 12 was detected in two or more independent cultures. The parents elected to terminate the pregnancy in all three cases. Follow-up studies in two of the cases confirmed the mosaicism in fetal tissues (in subcutaneous tissue in one case; in fetal lung in the other), but not in blood. No fetal anomalies were evident by ultrasound or at autopsy. These results along with other reported cases demonstrate the difficulty in counselling for mosaic trisomy 12.
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