title: Report of a trisomy 8p infant with carrier father.
abstract: This report describes an infant with fatal congenital heart disease, cleft palate, brain malformations, and trisomy 8p resultant from the paternal balanced reciprocal translocation, rcp(8;15) (p11;p11). Review of six previously reported trisomy 8p patients (resultant from parental balanced translocation in each instance) revealed severe mental retardation in five, short stature in all, and a variety of brain, skeletal, and cardiac defects. The features of the seven trisomy 8p patients reviewed here are not sufficiently similar to suggest a distinct dysmorphic syndrome. In addition the features differ from those in the trisomy 8 mosaicism syndrome, in which the mental retardation and malformations are generally less severe.
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities; D002906:Chromosomes, Human, 6-12 and X; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000235:genetics; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D014178:Translocation, Genetic; D014314:Trisomy