FISH studies in a girl with sporadic aniridia and an apparently balanced de novo t(11;13)(p13;q33) translocation detect a microdeletion involving the WAGR region
Conventional cytogenetic studies on a female infant with sporadic aniridia revealed what appeared to be a balanced de novo t(11;13) (p13;q33) translocation. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) investigations, however, detected the presence of a cryptic 11p13p14 deletion which included the WAGR region and involved approximately 7.5 Mb of DNA, including the PAX6 and WT1 genes. These results account for the patient's aniridia, and place her at high risk for developing Wilms' tumour. The absence of mental retardation in the patient suggests that the position of the distal breakpoint may also help to refine the mental retardation locus in the WAGR contiguous gene syndrome (Wilms', aniridia, genital anomalies and mental retardation).
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Main Authors: | Llerena Jr.,J.C., Cabral de Almeida,J.C., Bastos,E., Crolla,J.A. |
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
2000
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572000000300006 |
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