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A new case of familial paracentric inversion of chromosome 2

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A phenotypically otherwise normal homosexual man with a 46,XY,inv(2)(q21q33) karyotype inherited from his mother is described. The breakpoints were different from those observed in the only other case of familial paracentric inversion of chromosome 2 reported in the literature, but in our case they seem to correspond to constitutive and aphidicolin-induced fragile sites.

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  1. Laboratory of Cytogenetics, Istituto di Clinica Medica I, Policlinico Monteluce, Università di Perugia, I-06100, Perugia, Italy

    Emilio Donti, Antonella Rosetti, Ida Carloni & Giovanna Venti Donti

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Donti, E., Rosetti, A., Carloni, I. et al. A new case of familial paracentric inversion of chromosome 2. Hum Genet 75, 195 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00591087

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