title: 4q- syndrome.
abstract: To our knowledge, there have been three prior reports of patients found, with trypsin-Giemsa banding, to be monosomic for the terminal q segment of chromosome 4. Described herein is a fourth patient with this chromosome abnormality. Comparison of these four patients suggests a characteristic phenotype in the 4q- syndrome: cleft palate, satyr deformity of the pinnae, snub nose, retrognathia and micrognathia, hypertelorism, oropharyngeal hypothonia or upper airway obstruction, cardiac defect, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers with absence of a flexion crease, simian lines, displaced or clinodactylous toes, and mental retardation. In the three prior reports, the 4q- syndrome resulted from a de novo deletion. In the present case, the 4q monosomy was inherited from the father, who had a 4;20 translocation.
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000175:diagnosis*; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D002905:Chromosomes, Human, 4-5; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D013577:Syndrome; D014178:Translocation, Genetic