We report on a new case of ultrasonographic prenatal diagnosis of Fryns' syndrome during the second pregnancy of a young woman whose first child died 90 min after birth and was diagnosed as having this autosomal recessive condition. The feasibility of diagnosis in utero and timing in the phenotypic expression of this multimalformation syndrome are discussed.
The fragile site Xq27-28 was observed in several individuals of a large family. It is expressed at a high frequency among the carrier females, even as adults, and in one clinically normal male. None of the members of this family is affected with the mental retardation normally linked to this fragile site. Cytogenetic and flanking DNA marker polymorphism studies suggest a possible dissociation between the fragile site and clinical expression of the disease.
Two cases of trisomy 21q223 with the Down's phenotype were analysed by in situ hybridization with specific probes previously located in the sub-bands 21q221 (SOD-A) and 21q223 (BCEI and COL6A). These studies give evidence that the clinical picture of Down's syndrome is at least to a great extent correlated with trisomy for the 21q223 band.
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