Twenty-six years later: a woman with tetra-X chromosomes

J Ment Defic Res. 1988 Feb:32 ( Pt 1):67-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1988.tb01389.x.

Abstract

A 26-year follow-up of the first reported female with tetra-X chromosomes is presented. Mental and physical manifestations, and their variability, are considered with reference to this woman and other documented examples of the uncommon chromosomal aberration concerned.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Education of Intellectually Disabled
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / genetics*
  • Intellectual Disability / rehabilitation
  • Intelligence
  • Karyotyping
  • Middle Aged
  • Sex Chromosome Aberrations / genetics*
  • Sex Chromosome Aberrations / rehabilitation
  • X Chromosome*