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  • Title: Failure of PHA-stimulated i(12p) lymphocytes to divide in Pallister-Killian syndrome.
    Author: Reeser SL, Wenger SL.
    Journal: Am J Med Genet; 1992 Apr 01; 42(6):815-9. PubMed ID: 1554020.
    Abstract:
    The diagnosis of Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is confirmed by tissue-specific mosaicism of i(12p). The isochromosome is found in skin fibroblasts and bone marrow, but rarely in peripheral lymphocytes. The nature of the isochromosome loss was evaluated using 2 techniques: micronucleus formation for anaphase lag and in situ DNA hybridization for mosaicism in interphase cells. Cells from serial cultured fibroblasts, peripheral blood lymphocytes, and bone marrow from 4 PKS patients were used for the above analysis. Micronucleus formation was similar for PKS and normal diploid cultures, ruling out loss of i(12p) by anaphase lag as the major mechanism of in vitro mosaicism. In situ hybridization using an alpha satellite DNA probe for chromosome 12 was used to examine the presence of the i(12p) in interphase fibroblasts from 1 patient and lymphocytes from 2 patients (age 8 weeks and 1 day). The i(12p) was present in a significantly higher proportion of interphase nuclei in peripheral lymphocytes than in metaphase, suggesting the initial loss of the isochromosome is exaggerated in metaphase by selective division in vitro. In situ hybridization of peripheral lymphocyte interphase cells with chromosome 12 specific probes may be a useful supplemental procedure for the diagnosis of PKS, at least in the newborn infant.
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