It is estimated that 50% of spontaneous abortuses during the early months of gestation have a demonstrable chromosomal abnormality; there are, in addition, numerous smaller detectable errors and many others still beyond our range of identification. About 1% of all newborn infants possess a gross chromosomal abnormality.
Types
numerical chromosomal anomalies
structural chromosomal anomalies
- deletions
- chromsome 13 deletion
- 18q- syndrome (del18q)
- 18p- syndrome (del18p)
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4p- syndrome (del4p) (Wolf-Hischhorn syndrome)
- 5p- syndrome (del5p) (cat-cry syndrome)
- 11p- syndrome (del11p)
- 17p- syndrome (Miller-Dieker syndrome)
- isodicentric 22 (22pter-q11) (Schmid-Fraccaro syndrome)
- 21q- syndrome (del21q)
- 22q- syndrome (del22q)
chromosomal duplications
chromosomal recombinaisons
- recombinant chromsome 8 syndrome (RC8S)
chromosomal translocations
ring chromosomes
gonosomal anomalies
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monosomy X (45,X) (Turner syndrome)
- 47,XXY
- 47,XXX
- 47,XYY
mosaicism
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