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. 1989 Feb;26(2):127–130. doi: 10.1136/jmg.26.2.127

Interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 2 with normal levels of isocitrate dehydrogenase.

I A Glass 1, C A Swindlehurst 1, D A Aitken 1, W McCrea 1, E Boyd 1
PMCID: PMC1015564  PMID: 2918541

Abstract

We report a 16 year old boy with the abnormal karyotype 46,XY,del(2)(q32.2q33.1) who has mental retardation, microcephaly, epilepsy, craniofacial dysmorphism, distinctive scalloped skin pigmentation, and normal levels of isocitrate dehydrogenase.

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