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. 1983 Dec;20(6):464–465. doi: 10.1136/jmg.20.6.464

Interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 2: del(2)(q31q33).

S A Al-Awadi, T I Farag, K Naguib, A Teebi, A Cuschieri, S Al-Othman, T S Sundareshan
PMCID: PMC1049184  PMID: 6655673

Abstract

A child with a de novo interstitial deletion, 46,XX,del(2)(q31q33), is described. Clinical features included psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, microcephaly, hypertelorism, downward slanting palpebral fissures, macrostomia, cleft palate, micrognathia, abnormal ears, overlapping fingers, simian creases, and rocker bottom feet.

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