Autopsy findings of a 37-year-old man with a complex mosaic karyotype involving del(18p), monosomy 13, and trisomy 20.

We report on the autopsy findings of a 37-year-old man with a complex karyotype (mos46,XY,del(18)(p11.1)[14]/46,XY, -13, del (18)(p11.1), +20[8]/47,XY,del(18)(p11.

Prenatal detection of an interstitial deletion in 4p15 in a fetus with an increased nuchal skin fold measurement.

Objectives: The detection of an increased nuchal translucency (NT) or nuchal fold (NF) measurement is associated with an increased risk of common aneuploidies. Only rarely is it associated with other types of chromosome abnormalities. We report the prenatal finding of an increased NF in a fetus with an interstitial 4p deletion.

Reevaluating confined placental mosaicism.

Chromosomal mosaicism was found in 38 of 4,000 chorionic villus samples examined from 1998 to 2003. A small fraction of these (5/38) were confirmed as true mosaics by analysis of amniotic fluid. Twenty-nine cases that fit the definition of confined placental mosaicism were followed with clinical and cytogenetic analysis throughout the pregnancy, at birth and in a few cases into infancy.