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Serum and urinary beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2M) were studied by enzyme immunoassay in 28 normal neonates at day 1 and day 4 of life in relation to gestational age (GA) and postnatal age (PNA). The infants were grouped according to GA; 10 with GA ranging from 32 to 35 weeks (mean 33.5 weeks) and 18 with GA ranging from 36 to 41 weeks (mean 38.3 weeks). Serum beta 2M varied directly with both GA and PNA. When values for serum beta 2M were related to conceptional age (CA), a significant positive correlation was present for all the infants studied (r = 0.68, P less than 0.01). Fractional excretion of beta 2M (FE beta 2M) decreased as a function of both GA and PNA. When a comparison of FE beta 2M was made in infants of all CA, a significant inverse correlation was noted for infants with CA less than or equal to 35 weeks (r = -0.89, P less than 0.001). The fall in FE beta 2M reached a plateau by 36 weeks. The highest FE beta 2M (33%) was observed in infants of 32 weeks CA who had the lowest filtered beta 2M (F beta 2M). No statistically significant relationship between changes in FE beta 2M and fractional urine flow rate was observed within each of the CA categories (infants less than or equal to 35 weeks, r = 0.21, P = 0.28; infants greater than or equal to 36 weeks, r = 0.25, P = 0.18).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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A male infant was observed with a complex of un usual clinical abnormalities. Chromosomal studies revealed that the child was mosaic for a chromosomal fragment from the long arms of a number 9 chromosome. The majority of cells contained 46 chromosomes with a partially deleted number 9 chromosome and a chromosomal fragment. From these data and others repor ted, it would appear that there is a susceptibility for breakage of the long arms of the number 9 chromosome at the junction of the heterochromatin and euchromatin area closest to the centromere. The lymphocytes from this child are capable of transformation into long-term lymphocyte cultures, and after many months in culture the chromosomal fragment has replicated in the cultured cells even though it contained no detectable centromere.