title: Severe mental retardation in a boy with partial trisomy 10q and partial monosomy 2q.
abstract: A severely mentally subnormal child with many physical stigmata was shown to have the karyotype 46,XY,-2,+der(2),t(2;10)(q31;q24)pat. Full evaluation of this patient's karyotype depended on the family studies. It was shown that a balanced translocation t(2,10) was present in 4 normal males in 3 generations.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002900:Chromosomes, Human, 1-3; D002906:Chromosomes, Human, 6-12 and X; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics*; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D014178:Translocation, Genetic; D014314:Trisomy