Mother-son Parental Care in Horned Larks

Pneumococcal bacteraemia in mother and son.

Mother-son incest: confronting a prejudice.

This paper examines the proposition that the incidence of child sexual abuse by female perpetrators is underestimated. This may be due to a culturally based unwillingness to believe that women commit such acts. Female sexual offenders have been little studied and poorly understood. Until recently mother-child incest was considered to be virtually nonexistant and there remains a huge discrepancy...

Two Cases of Coloboma Iridis in Mother and Son, with Monocular Policoria Also in the Son

birth of the son whose case is described below. Dimness of sight then came on, and gradually progressed to complete blindness without any redness, pain or lachrymation. An examination of the eyes gave the following results (28th April 1897) :? Right eye: The iris is divided completely into two portions (Fig. 1) by two large broad colobomata, one of which extends downwards and outwards, the othe...

Different Cardiac Anomalies in Mother and Son with 4q-Syndrome

We report a female patient with asymptomatic cor triatriatum sinister, associated with 4q34.3 deletion. Her child, carrying the same imbalance, suffers from tetralogy of Fallot. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of cor triatriatum associated with deletion of the long arm of the chromosome 4; furthermore, the majority of patients with chromosome 4 long arm syndrome ha...

Phenotype of FOXP2 haploinsufficiency in a mother and son.

Disruptions in FOXP2, a transcription factor, are the only known monogenic cause of speech and language impairment. We report on clinical findings for two new individuals with a submicroscopic deletion of FOXP2: a boy with severe apraxia of speech and his currently moderately affected mother. A 1.57 Mb deletion on chromosome 7q31 was detected by array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). I...