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This report describes a polymalformed female newborn presenting an interstitial deletion of the long arms of chromosome 2. Karyotype: 46,XX,del(2)(q21 q24).
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Fryns, J.P., Van Bosstraeten, B., Malbrain, H. et al. Interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 2 in a polymalformed newborn-karyotype: 46,XX,del(2)(q21;q24). Hum Genet 39, 233–238 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287018
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