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. 1988 Sep;80(1):16-22.
doi: 10.1007/BF00451449.

X-chromosome polysomy in the male. The Leuven experience 1966-1987

A Kleczkowska  1 , J P Fryns, H Van den Berghe
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X-chromosome polysomy in the male. The Leuven experience 1966-1987

A Kleczkowska et al. Hum Genet. 1988 Sep.

Abstract

A review of 569 male patients with X-chromosome polysomies (544 Klinefelter and 25 patients with other types of X-chromosome polysomy) is presented here. These patients were detected among the 77,000 persons karyotyped in the Leuven cytogenetic center between the years 1966 and 1987. In the group of 544 Klinefelter patients special attention was paid to (1) the age at diagnosis, (2) social and marital status of the postpubertal males, (3) physical and intellectual abilities of the prepubertal boys, (4) delineation of the concurrence of Klinefelter syndrome and fragile X syndrome, and (5) the frequency of malignancies. In 25 patients with other X-chromosome polysomies (2 n greater than or equal to 48 chromosomes) genotype/phenotype correlation is reviewed, especially for the patients with 48,XXYY and 49,XXXXY karyotypes. Finally, double aneuploidy and rare structural X-chromosome aberrations are briefly discussed.

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