Study on the relationship between cytogenetics and phenotypic effect in Turner’s syndrome

Abstract

The cytogenetics and clinical stigmata in 5 cases of Turner’s syndrome were studied. Three of them were non-mosaic i(Xq) and two with partial monosome of a X chromosome short are (Xp21). whose DNA replication patterns of inactive X chromosome were analyzed by RBG technique. Results showed that differences between the replication patterns in cases of X chromosome deletion (Xp21) and normal females existed; that the behavior of abnormal X expressed nonrandom inactivation. It was suggested that the phenotype may be closely related with both X chromosome replication pattern and its inactivation behavior, which might be useful in genetic counselling.

Keywords

DNA replication / X chromosome / phenotypic effect / Turner’s syndrome

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