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Three patients with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome carrying a satellited chromosome 4p.

[wolf-hirschhorn syndrome]

Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is caused by a deletion involving the 4p16.3 region. Approximately 70% of WHS patients have a de novo isolated deletion and 22% involve unbalanced translocations. However, WHS with unbalanced rearrangements involving the short arm of an acrocentric chromosome are infrequently reported.Cytogenetic and molecular analyses by using standard G-banding, argyrophilic nucleolar organiser region (Ag-NOR) staining, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and single nucleotide polymorphism array for copy number detection were performed in three patients with WHS phenotype from two Chinese families.A heterozygous 2,767,380-bp terminal 4p deletion was detected in patients 1 and 2 and a heterozygous 5,047,291-bp terminal 4p deletion was detected in patient3. Clinical comparisons among our patients and previously reported cases have been reviewed.Two terminal 4p deletions were identified in three WHS patients with a satellited 4p and an attempt was made to refine the genotypic-phenotypic correlations of the deleted regions.

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