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A 5-month-old female was found with a 16q-trisomy; her mother was the carrier of a balanced translocation 46,XX,t(15p+;16q-)(15p12;16q11). This is the first report in the literature of a liveborn with this chromosome abnormality.
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Yunis, E., González, J.T. & Torres de caballero, O.M. Partial trisomy 16q-. Hum. Genet. 38, 347–350 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402163
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