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A girl with delayed growth in body height and weight, retarded psychomotor development, facial dysmorphism, high-arched palate, extension defects of elbows, and a probable hearing impairment is presented. A chromosome investigation by both conventional and high-resolution banding techniques revealed an apparently pure interstitial deletion of the proximal segment of the short arm of chromosome 3 (46, XX, del(3) (p11p14.2) de novo). The paternal karyotype is 47,XYY. The clinical features of the patient are compared with those of two previously reported cases in the literature with an interstitial 3p deletion.
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Sichong, Z., Bui, TH., Castro, I. et al. A girl with an interstitial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 3 studied with a high-resolution banding technique. Hum Genet 59, 178–181 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00293073
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