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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
June 1996
Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
This paper is a brief review of the scope of research and clinical work in human genetics in Singapore. Clinical genetics and karyotyping were established in the early sixties. G6PD deficiency was discovered then as the commonest cause of kernicterus in the newborn.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA partial monosomy 13 by interstitial deletion was found in the complement of a girl with mild mental retardation and bilateral retinoblastoma. Break points were at 13q12 and 13q14. After comparison with other known observations of retinoblastoma with deletion of chromosome 13, it is suggested that the deletion common to these patients may be band 13q14.
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