Familial manic-depressive illness with deleted short arm of chromosome 21: coincidental or causal?
A 35-year-old Arab lady and her mother, both with bipolar manic-depressive illness and 46,XX,21p-(pcen----pter), are reported. The clinical significance of this association is considered.
el-Badramany
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Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre.
Farag
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al-Awadi
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Hammad
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Abdelkader
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Murthy
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D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000235:genetics*; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002891:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence