To the Editor:The mapping of genes encoding blood coagulation factors VII (F7) and X (F10) to the 13q34 segment was first suggested by Pfeiffer et al. (1982) on the basis of observations of reduced plasma FVII and FX levels in two patient with a deletion involving the 13q34 segment. Subsequent investigations on patients with various abnormalities of chromosome 13 have confirmed that monosomy for the 13q34 segment produced a 50~ decrement (de Grouchy et al., 1984;Gilgenkrantz et al., 1986;Fukushima et al., 1987) while trisomy for the same segment led to a 50~ increment (Gilgenkrantz et al., 1986) in plasma FVII and FX levels. In addition, Scambler and Williamson (1985) have demonstrated on Southern blot analysis of DNA from patients with monosomy for 13q34 using a cloned human F10 gene that the low ,expression of FX resulted from loss of one copy of the F10 structural genes. Although the loci for F7 and F10 are assumed to form a coagulation gene cluster in this region, localization remains to be detailed at the subband level. In this letter, we describe results of a gene dose study for F7 and F10 in a 3 year 9 month-old female patient with a ring chromosome 13 in which the breakpoint was located at the distal portion of the 13q34 band.The patient was born at term to a 30-year-old mother and an unrelated 32-year-old father. The pregnancy was uneventful, but the delivery was complicated by bleeding due to placenta praevia. The birth weight was 2,264 g. Because of neonatal asphyxia, she was cared for in an incubator for 2 days. Her psychomotor development was slow: head control at 4 months, sitting without support at 1 year 10 months and walking alone at 2 years 7 months. At the age of 3 years 9 months, her body weight was 12 kg (-1.7 S.D.), the height 93.0 cm (-1.1 S.D.) and the head circumference 43.5 cm (-3.6 S.D.). She was found to have microcephaly, long and narrow palpebral fissures, prominent nasal bridge, protruding maxilla, thin lips, anterior displacement of the anus, proximal implantation of the thumbs and bilateral short fifth fingers. Her 2nd and 4th toes overlapped onto the 3rd toes bilaterally. Examinations of the chest and abdomen showed no abnormality. There was no antecedent history of bleeding disorder, and liver function tests yielded normal results.Conventional cytogenetic study of peripheral blood lymphocytes from the