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  • Title: C-band polymorphism: comparison between trisomy 21 cases and mentally retarded controls.
    Author: Funderburk SJ, Klisak I, Sparkes RS, Westlake J.
    Journal: Am J Med Genet; 1980; 5(3):265-9. PubMed ID: 6447457.
    Abstract:
    C-banding was done prospectively on 50 Down syndrome (trisomy 21) cases and 50 mentally retarded controls. Heterochromatin was quantitated by measuring the lengths of heterochromatin blocks and comparing these segments to the length of the short arm of chromosome 16 for 1, 9 and 16 heterochromatin, and to the total length of the Y chromosome for the Y heterochromatin in the distal long arm. For the first 30 individuals in each group, there was no difference in the mean lengths of C-band blocks of the 1, 9, 16 and Y chromosomes. For the total sample, there also was no difference between the trisomy 21 cases and controls in the number or size of pericentric inversions involving the heterochromatin blocks of chromosomes 1 and 9. Assuming random segregation of the parental C-band polymorphisms, this study gives no evidence for an association between such polymorphisms of the 1, 9, 16 and Y chromosomes and nondisjunction of chromosome 21.
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