title: Mental retardation with 45 chromosomes 45,XX,--5,--14,+der(5) t(5,14)(p15;q13) mat due to familial balanced reciprocal translocation.
abstract: A girl with severe mental retardation and odd facies and some features of the cri-duchat syndrome was found to have only 45 chromosomes. Her karyotype was 45,XX, -5, -14,+der(5) t(5,14)(p15;q13) mat. Her mother and her two sisters were found to be balanced reciprocal translocation carriers having 46 chromosomes, one of which was a very small (14pter leads to 14q13::5p15leads to 5pter) that was missing in the proposita.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002901:Chromosomes, Human, 13-15; D002905:Chromosomes, Human, 4-5; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics*; D014178:Translocation, Genetic