Author:
Wu Qiong,Kong Hui,Shen Yanyan,Chen Jing
Abstract
AbstractPartial trisomy 9p is one of the most frequent autosome anomalies in newborn infants featured by craniofacial dysmorphism, intellectual disability and psychomotor growth. Female patients carrying monosomy Xq usually show mild symptoms due to skewed X-chromosome inactivation (XCI). Unbalanced translocation between chromosome X and chromosome 9 is rare in prenatal diagnosis. The skewed inactivation of abnormal X would spread into the extra segment of chromosome 9 presented in the der(X) leading to mild phenotypes. We reported on a fetus with high risk of trisomy 9p(13.32 Mb 9p23-p24.3 duplication)suggested by noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), the fetus was normal by ultrasonography. G-banding with trypsin-giemsa (GTG), copy number variations sequencing (CNV-seq) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) were carried out to delineate the nature of rearrangement. Final karyotype of the fetus was identified as 46,X,der(X)t(X;9)(q27;p23)dn. An unbalanced X-autosome translocation with a deletion of Xqter-q27.2 and a duplication of 9pter-p23 led to mild phenotypes with no obvious alteration by prenatal ultrasonography, or obvious pathological alterations after pregnancy termination.
Funder
Xiamen Medical and Health Guidance Project
Youth Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China
Guiding project of the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian
Young and Middle-aged Talent Cultivation Projects of Fujian Province
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Biochemistry (medical),Genetics (clinical),Genetics,Molecular Biology,Molecular Medicine,Biochemistry
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