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Table 2 Results of subtelomeric FISH for the nine patients with rearrangements.

From: Subtelomeric study of 132 patients with mental retardation reveals 9 chromosomal anomalies and contributes to the delineation of submicroscopic deletions of 1pter, 2qter, 4pter, 5qter and 9qter

Case

Family history of MR

Karyotype

Deletion/duplication size

Parents karyotype

1

No

46,XX.ish del(1)(p36.3)

8 Mb (a)

Normal

2

No

46,XY.ish der(2)t(2;22)(q37.2;q1?)

NA

Mother normal / father NA

3

No

46,XX.ish del(2)(q37.2)

6.8 Mb

Mother normal (e) / father NA

4

No

46,XX.ish del(4)(p16.1)

Approx 4 Mb (d)

Normal

5

No

46,XY/46,XY.ish der(22)t(12;22)(p13;p?)

NA

Normal

6a,b

Yes

46,XX.ish der(13)t(5;13)(q35.2;q34)

3.9 Mb (13qter) and 6.5 Mb (5qter) (b)

Mother: 46,XX,t(5;13)(q35.2;q34)

7

Yes

46,XX.ish der(9)t(9;22)(q34.2;q13.3)nat

4.1 Mb (9qter) and 5.7 Mb (22qter) (c)

Father: 46,XY,t(9;22)(q34.2;q13.31)

8

No

46,XX.ish del(5)(q35)

4–7 Mb (f)

Normal

  1. (a),(b),(c), Cases 15, 16, 14, respectively, described by Schoumans et al. (2004); (d) also deleted for Wolf-Hirshhorn probe (Vysis ®); (e), Deletion D2S2986 polymorphism (see text for detail); (f), see text for detail; MR, mental retardation; NA, not analyzed.