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. 1982 Jun;19(3):229–232. doi: 10.1136/jmg.19.3.229

Two Robertsonian translocations in a boy with mental retardation*

Ernest Lieber 1, Puloma Shah 1
PMCID: PMC1048874  PMID: 7108921

Abstract

An 8-year-old boy with mental retardation was found to be a mosaic, showing three different cell lines, 46,XY/46,XY,-21,+t(q21q21)/45,XY,-13,-21,+t(q13q21) in cultured peripheral blood cells.

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