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Trisomy 13 (Patau's syndrome): a rare case of survival into adulthood
Author(s) -
SINGH K. S. T.
Publication year - 1990
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.1365-2788.1990.tb01520.x
Subject(s) - trisomy , aneuploidy , medicine , pediatrics , down syndrome , chromosome , genetics , psychiatry , biology , gene
. Survival of cases of trisomy 13 (Patau's syndrome) into adulthood is a rare phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to report one such survivor who has had the typical clinical features of trisomy 13 confirmed by chromosome analysis of both blood and skin, and to speculate on some of the factors that may have contributed to his unusually long survival.