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A child has been described who developed a retinoblastoma in the left and probably also in the right eye at the age of two years. Mitosis from peripheral blood cells and fibroblasts showed a deletion of the long arm of a D-group chromosome which could be identified by autoradiography as D1. The child died at the age of 2 1/2 years. An autopsy could not performed.
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Gey, W. Dq−, multiple Mißbildungen und Retinoblastom. Hum Genet 10, 362–365 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00278776
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