Evidence of tetrasomic inheritance in alfalfa, Medicago sativa L. and M . falcata L., for multiple codominant alleles at three isozymic loci is reported in this study. The locus Prx-I governing anodal peroxidase and the loci Lap-I and L a p 2 governing anodal leucine-aminopeptidase were studied by starch gel electrophoresis in seedling root tissue or seeds. The progenies from several di-, trior...

This volume is a report of a meeting sponsored by the March of Dimes-Birth Defects Foundation at the University of California, San Diego, in June of 1981. It consists of a series of original papers which were presented at the conference and is divided into two sections: one on syndromes and the second on cytogenetics. A large variety of interesting papers on the subject of dysmorphology discuss...

Myelodysplastic neoplasia (MDS) is a group of stem cell disorders involving ineffective hematopoiesis. It can be associated with an increased risk progression toward acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In Bahrain, MDS the fifth most common primary hematologic malignancy. has annual incidence up to 4 million cases. Some presenting signs and symptoms are often nonspecific, such as fatigue, pallor, mala...