Ring chromosome 10: report on two patients and review of the literature.

Ring chromosome 10--r(10)--is a rare disorder, with 14 cases reported in the literature, but only two with breakpoint determination by high-resolution techniques. We report here on two patients presenting a ring chromosome 10, studied by G-banding, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) and SNP-array techniques, in order to investigate ring instability and determine breakpoints. Patient 1 showed a r(10)(p15.3q26.2) with a 7.9 Mb deletion in 10q26.2-q26.2, while patient 2 showed a r(10)(p15.3q26.13) with a 1.0 Mb deletion in 10p15.3 and a 8.8 Mb deletion in 10q26.13-q26.3, both unstable. While patient 1 presented with clinical features usually found in patients with r(10) and terminal 10q deletion, patient 2 presented characteristics so far not described in other patients with r(10), such as Dandy-Walker variant, osteopenia, semi-flexed legs, and dermal pigmentation regions. Our data and the data from literature show that there are no specific clinical findings to define a r(10) syndrome.

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Roberta Santos Guilherme, Chong Ae Kim, Luis Garcia Alonso, Rachel S Honjo, Vera Ayres Meloni, Denise Maria Christofolini, Leslie Domenici Kulikowski, Maria Isabel Melaragno. Ring chromosome 10: report on two patients and review of the literature. Journal of applied genetics. 2013 Feb;54(1):35-41

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PMID: 23247912

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