title: Trisomy 20p due to a paternal reciprocal translocation.
abstract: A mentally retarded boy with multiple malformations was found to have trisomy for the distal two-thirds of the short arm of chromosome 20 (trisomy 20p), resulting from a paternal translocation (5;20)(p15;p11). The patient had a cleft palate, a feature not present in other trisomy 20p patients. A review of the reported trisomy 20p patients indicates that their varied features do no constitute a readily recognizable clinical syndrome.
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002903:Chromosomes, Human, 19-20 / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D010641:Phenotype; D014178:Translocation, Genetic; D014314:Trisomy