title: The Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. I. Genetics.
abstract: Four new cases of the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome are presented, two of which were due to t(4;22)mat. Review of the literature (more than 100 cases of the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome) showed that 13 % of all the reported cases were not mutations but segregations of parental chromosomal aberrations, primarily translocations. Similar data were obtained previously for other deletions (5p--, 18p--, 18q--). Analysis of data on some "new" deletion syndromes (4q--, 8p--, 9p--, 10p--, 11p--, 11q--) revealed that 14.5 % were inherited cases. Thus, all human autosomal deletions have virtually the same genetic pattern.
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002905:Chromosomes, Human, 4-5; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome