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A FRAGILE SECONDARY CONSTRICTION ON CHROMOSOME 2 IN A SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED PATIENT
Author(s) -
WILLIAMS A. J.,
HOWELL R. T.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1977.tb00042.x
Subject(s) - mentally retarded , constriction , secondary constriction , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , developmental psychology , chromosome , genetics , karyotype , biology , gene
A case is presented of an eighteen-year-old girl suffering from severe mental retardation associated with a fragile secondary constriction on the long arm of chromosome 2. The question of the relationship between the phenotypic and chromosomal abnormalities is discussed. We acknowledge the co-operation of Dr M. E. Elsarag and Dr K. M. Laurence in allowing this investigation to be made.