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Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río
On-line version ISSN 1561-3194
Abstract
CASTRO MONTESINO, Daelys; IGLESIAS ROJAS, María Beatriz and RAMOS FERNANDEZ, Omar. Cytogenetic diagnosis in a patient affected by intellectual disability in Portuguesa State, Venezuela. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.2, e4814. Epub Apr 01, 2021. ISSN 1561-3194.
Introduction:
chromosomal alterations both in number and structure are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. They affect approximately one out of every two-hundred live newborns, being the main cause of intellectual disability.
Objective:
to describe the cytogenetic diagnosis in a patient affected with intellectual disability.
Case report:
a 6-year-old child who was taken for genetic counseling due to intellectual disability, dysmorphias and short small height. Genetic clinical history was taken; clinical method and cytogenetic diagnosis were applied; GTG chromosome banding was applied and 25 metaphases were analyzed. A structural chromosomal aberration (complex translocation) was diagnosed in 25 metaphases studied, showing the presence of four (4) autosomal chromosomes involved and the breakpoints: 46,XX, t(7;10;14;18)(p22;q11.1;q31;q11.1).
Conclusions:
the study made possible to provide a diagnosis, define the risk of recurrence in the offspring and improve treatment, supporting the importance of genetic counseling which is a significant tool at primary health care level.
Keywords : INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPE; CHROMOSOME; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC.