ChromosOmics - Database

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clinical symptoms

In general 70% of sSMC carriers are clinically normal. The figures listed above
are based on the bias, that mainly clinically aberrant cases are studied and reported in literature!


UPD (uniparental disomy) cases: UPD(21)mat UPD(21)pat UPD(21)mat or pat

the probably non-dosage sensitive pericentric region of chromosome 21

schematic

cytogenetic

depiction

het long (= q-) arm






































short (= p-) arm cen

q21
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no clinical
signs



























































































clinical
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schematic

molecular-

cytogenetic

depiction

Data is converted between genome versions by UCSC browser!
Note the changes defined there for centromere-sizes; due to that and due to 'new insertions and deletions', positions are not always seeming logical comparing different versions listed




genomic version
critical
region
p-arm
centromere uncritical
region
q-arm
critical
region
q-arm
NCBI 36/ hg18 p-tel 13.20 17.81 18.10
GRCh 37/ hg19 p-tel 14.30 18.89 19.18
GRCh 38/ hg38 p-tel 13.00 17.52 17.81
  Positions given in megabasepair (Mbp)
acc. to cases marked as ***

clinical symptoms

body region signs and symptoms 21q-cen-near
[%]
bone skoliosis 14
growth growth retardation (prenatal and/or postnatal) 29

obesity 14
head - face facial dysmorphism (no details given, or others than listed; i.e. unspecific ones) 57

nose long and/or bulbous 14
head - skull/ brain microcephaly 14
mental attention deficit disorder 14

autism 29

developmental delay 71

mental retardation 29
muscles hypotonia 29




cases included 7