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The prenatal detection of a familial pericentric inversion of chromosome 19
Author(s) -
Couzin David A.,
Watt Jessie L.,
Stephen Gordon S.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
prenatal diagnosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.956
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1097-0223
pISSN - 0197-3851
DOI - 10.1002/pd.1970060112
Subject(s) - chromosomal inversion , prenatal diagnosis , chromosomal abnormality , abnormality , chromosome 9 , chromosome abnormality , genetics , chromosome , genetic counseling , karyotype , inversion (geology) , medicine , pediatrics , biology , fetus , pregnancy , psychiatry , gene , paleontology , structural basin
A familial pericentric inversion of chromosome 19 was detected prenatally in a young primagravida. As far as the authors are aware there are no previous published reports of this rare abnormality being ascertained in this manner. The problems of counselling such a family are considered.

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