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Report on mosaicism of an additional deleted chromosome 8 in a 12-year-old girl. She exhibits several typical but minor features of the trisomy-8 syndrome. Her IQ is 77 (Hawik).
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Pfeiffer, R.A., Kessel, E., Rathgen, E. et al. Mosaicism for an additional partial chromosome 8: 46,XX/47,XX+der(8)(p21→qter). Hum Genet 44, 207–212 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00295416
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