Origin of the extra chromosome in trisomy 18
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics
- Vol. 79 (4) , 377-378
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00282181
Abstract
The parental origin of an extra chromosome in five patients with trisomy 18 was traced using a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the human prealbumin (PA) gene, localized to 18p11.1–q12.1, as a genetic marker. MspI digests of the genomic DNAs of the five patients, their parents and normal controls were hybridized with the PAcDNA. Densitometric analysis on the gene dose of the polymorphic fragments of these patients revealed that three had originated from a maternal meiotic error. The other two patients were uninformative for the parental origin of trisomy 18. Our results indicate that nondisjunctional errors leading to trisomy 18 may occur predominantly at the maternal meiosis, consistent with the results of previous studies on the parental origin of trisomies 21 and 13.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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