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A female infant with mild mental retardation and dysmorphic features was found to have an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5∶46,XX,del(5)(q15q22).
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Fukuda, T., Fukushima, Y. & Kuroki, Y. A case of an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5: 46,XX,del(5)(q15q22). Jap J Human Genet 29, 63–67 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01876760
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