http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-8166-4-27
pubmed: 22136596
scopus: cited 1 time
Prenatally diagnosed submicroscopic familial aberrations at 18p11.32 without phenotypic effect
2011-12-05
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Background: Recent development of MLPA (Multiplex-Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification, MRC-Holland) and microarray technology allows detection of a wide range of new submicroscopic abnormalities. Publishing new cases and case reviews associated with both clinical abnormalities and a normal phenotype is of great value. Findings/results. We report on two phenotypically normal foetuses carrying a maternally-inherited interstitial submicroscopic abnormality of chromosome 18p11.32. Both abnormalities were found with the aneuploidy MLPA kit P095 during rapid aneuploidy detection, which was offered along with conventional karyotyping. Foetus 1 and its mother have a 1,7 Mb deletion and foetus 2 and its mother have a 1,9 Mb duplication. In both cases normal babies were born. We used the HumanCytoSNP-12 array of Illumina to visualize the CNVs and map the breakpoints. Conclusions: We suggest that a CNV at 18p11.32 (528,050-2,337,486) may represent a new benign euchromatic variant.
- deletion
- abnormality
- phenotype
- patient
- chromosome
- mother
- array
- duplication
- cytogenetic
- submicroscopic
- probe
- parent
- monosomy 18 p
- j med genet
- genet
- 18 p monosomy
- 18 p 11.32
- 11.32
- region
- database
