INTRODUCTION Heterotopic ossification is the abnormal formation of lamellar bone in soft tissue. Its presence jeopardizes functional outcome, impairs rehabilitation and increases costs due to subsequent surgical interventions. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 32-year-old African-American man with trisomy 8 mosaicism who developed severe heterotopic ossification of his right extensor m...

Prenatal diagnosis of a case of X/XXX mosaicism is presented. In spite of the fact that over 50% of the cells cultured from both ovaries were trisomic for the X chromosome, fetal öocytes were rarely found. This case illustrates that the presence of a triple-X cell line, even in a relatively high percentage of ovarian cells, does not necessarily protect the ovary from 'aöogenesis'. This observat...

The large number of cell divisions required to make a human body inevitably leads to the accumulation of somatic mutations. Such mutations cause individuals to be somatic mosaics. Recent advances in genomic technology now allow measurement of somatic diversity. Initial studies confirmed the expected high levels of somatic mutations within individuals. Going forward, the big questions concern th...

Background Genetic mosaicism is only detected occasionally when there are no obvious health or developmental issues. Most cases concern healthy parents in whom mosaicism is identified upon targeted testing of a genetic defect that was initially detected in their children. A germline genetic defect affecting the euchromatin histone methyltransferase 1 (EHMT1) gene causes Kleefstra syndrome, whic...

SCN1A mutations account for a large proportion of Dravet syndrome patients, and are reported in other cases of epilepsy, such as some families with genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+). While most Dravet syndrome cases are caused by de novo mutations, 5% inherit a mutation from a mildly affected or symptom-free parent. Parental mosaicism has been identified, with documented cases...

In this data article, we developed a Au nanowire injector (Au NWI) for directly delivering plasmid into the 1-cell stage of the mouse embryos designed to successfully attach and detach the plasmid on the Au NWI, highly minimizing physical and chemical damage on the embryos. This data presents that a Au NWI system does not induce detrimental damages on development of embryos and efficiently expr...

The proband, a VA year old female child, was the first issue of a healthy couple (Fig. 1). The second issue which is a male child, is absolutely normal. The age of the mother and father was 30 and 35 years, respectively. The marriage was a non-consanguineous one. A detailed pedigree analysis revealed no chromosomal or genetic abnormality in the family. There was no previous history of miscarria...

Morphological abnormalities of the X chromosome are well documented and have been extensively reviewed and discussed by Ferguson-Smith (1965). They include isochromosome of the long arm, deletions of the long and short arms, ring chromosomes, and chromosomal fragments. Other types of abnormality are rare. Engel and Forbes (1965) described a chromatin negative girl (Patient No. 27) with a mosaic...

  Background and Objectives: Primary amenorrhea is not a disease but a symptom that may result from several quite different causes[NN1] . Common hormonal cause of primary amenorrhea includes constitutional delay, hypothalamic –pituitary dysfunction, chronic systemic disease and absent ovarian function. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of the chromosomal abnormality referred ...

To the Editor : Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) is an autosomal dominant (NIPBL, SMC3 and RAD21 ) or Xlinked (SMC1A and HDAC8 ) congenital disorder, characterized by distinctive craniofacial appearance, growth retardation, intellectual disability and limb malformations (1). Currently, mutations in about 70% of the patients studied have been identified (1). However, recent studies have found l...