Title: Detection of Pericentric Inversion of Y chromosome in an Infant with Down Syndrome
Authors: Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, AK Kapoor
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i2.30
Abstract
An infant aged 18 days had trisomy of chromosome 21 along with pericentric inversion of Y chromosome. He failed to develop. Later, he died. Herewith, we report a case of chromosome 21 trisomy with percentric inversion of Y chromosome.
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