J Med Genet: first published as 10.1136/jmg.20.2.107 on 1 April 1983. Downloaded from Journal of Medical Genetics, 1983, 20, 107-111 Partial monosomy of chromosome 10 short arms A GENCIK*, U BRONNIMANt, R TOBLERt, AND P AUJF DER MAUR* From *Zytogenetisches Labor, Pathologisches Institut der Universitdt, Bern; and tSduglingsspital Elfenau, Bern, Switzerland. SUMMARY Two children with monosmy IOp13 are reported. In the first case the monosomy was the result of a maternal balanced translocation t(3;10) (p27;pl3) while the second case was a de novo mutation. We reviewed clinical details of cases reported so far and found that certain symptoms are typical of the deletion of a comparatively large segment of chromosome 10 short arms. These symptoms include mental and growth retardation, skull abnormalities, antimongoloid slant of the eyes, ear abnormalities, anteverted nostrils, abnormalities of the hands and feet, cryptorchidism in boys, and, primarily, hypoplasia or aplasia of the olfactory bulbs and olfactory tracts as well as narrow palpebral fissures or eyelid ptosis. Since the first description by Elliott et al1 of a Family A probable partial deletion of lOp in a child with many clinical symptoms, a number of reports of patients II 1 12 with lOp partial monosomy have been published,2-7 copyright. thus enlarging the clinical picture. Deletion of part of the chromosome 10 short arms associated with deletion of the long arm terminal segment is also found in cases with ring chromosome 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 10.8-12 As a rule, the deletion of both telomeric Farmily B W Congenital anomalies segments is small and the clinical picture is not as I E} 4 ETranslocation carrier severe as in cases of the above mentioned iOp partial 1 2 E1Normal karyotype http://jmg.bmj.com/ monosomy. [R Monosomy lOp Defined chromosome abnormalities, particularly Trisomy lOp monosomies, are U5 lt * Abortion suitable material for human 1 2 Z2l Dead genome mapping. Two enzyme loci have been thought to be located on lOp, namely red blood cell FIG 1 Pedigrees of the families with partial monosomy hexokinase (HK1) and pyrophosphatase (inorganic) 'op. (PF).1314 hernia and cryptorchidism were found. Cytogenetic on September 28, 2021 by guest. Protected Case reports examination in the pre-banding era revealed an apparently normal male karyotype. The infant died FAMILY A (FIG 1) suddenly at the age of 3 months. The second child The proband comes from a rural family of low (111.10), a boy with partial trisomy of chromosome intelligence who were reluctant to cooperate. The 10 short arms, was born in 1971. He showed retarded first (illegitimate) child (111.9) was born 10 days speech development at the age of 10 and minute preterm in 1969. Birthweight was 2750g and head cerebral motor defects, but development was normal circumference was 34.5cm. The infant had dys- and there were no dysmorphic features. morphic features including quadricephalic skull, low set and abnormally shaped ears, and aphony with Case ] (III.13) normally formed epiglottis and normal larynx. A This was the fifth child of the family. Delivery bifid uvula was also found. The eyes had an occurred 2 weeks before term. Birthweight was antimongoloid slant and there was micrognathia and 2760 g, length was 47 cm, and head circumference anteverted nostrils. In addition, bilateral inguinal was 34 cm. During the postnatal period a very soft Received for publication 2 August 1982. cry and trouble in sucking were noted. Examination 107 J Med Genet: first published as 10.1136/jmg.20.2.107 on 1 April 1983. Downloaded from 108 A Geneik, U Bronniman, R Tobler, and P Aufder Maur at the clinic during the first month of life showed a limited mobility and a constantly open mouth: he dysmorphic syndrome with the following signs: frequently ground his teeth. The skull was flattened quadricephalic skull with prominent forehead, broad at the sides and the face was asymmetrical. Ptosis skull sutures, abnormally shaped low set ears was more prominent on the right side. Mild hyper- rotated backwards, flat nose bridge, anteverted telorism, divergent strabismus, and a beak-like nose nostrils, high palate, hypertelorism, ptosis, more with a flattened tip were observed. The alveolar arch pronounced on the left side, the forefinger crossing of the maxilla was prominent and the teeth were over the middle finger, and cryptorchidism. The abnormally formed. The chin slanted backwards, the infant's cry was soft and purring. Neurological ears were not fully formed and were small, rotated examination showed overall muscular hypotonia as backwards, and very low set (fig 2a). The hair-line well as weak sucking and gripping reflexes. Abduc- was low at the nape of the neck. Red blood cell tion of the hips was limited. Congenital hypothy- hexokinase determinations gave normal values. roidism was also found. Repeated EEG examinations Cytogenetic examination showed a karyotype of showed normal findings although epileptiform 46,XY,del(10)(p13) (fig 3b). spasms were observed from the 8th to the 18th week ofage. At the age of 14 months amblyopia associated FAMILY B (FIG 1) with divergent strabismus was noted. Psychomotor The proband (case 2, 11.2) was the third child of a development has been greatly retarded since the first 28-year-old mother and 36-year-old father. Delivery examination. occurred 2 weeks after term. Birth weight was 2800 g, Examination at the age of4 years showed a clinical length was 48 cm, and head circumference was 35 cm. picture dominated by marked psychomotor and Clinical examination revealed the following (fig 2b): growth retardation. The child could not walk, hypertelorism, abnormally shaped low set large ears, contact was very poor, and no signs of speech were rotated backwards, anteverted nostrils, microgna- present. The mask-like face showed extremely thia, short and thick neck, syndactyly offingers 3 and 4, clinodactyly, transverse creases on both palms, hypospadias, and cryptorchidism. Cardiological copyright. examination showed a developmental heart defect. The child had to be fed through a 'tube because of sucking difficulties. Despite intensive cardiac therapy, the congenital heart defect led to acute heart and respiratory failure, resulting in the death of the child on the 17th day of life. Cytogenetic examination revealed a terminal deletion in the chromosome 10 http://jmg.bmj.com/ short arms with a break in band lOpi 3 (fig 3c). Discussion Stene and Stengel-Rutkowski'5 analysed 11 families with familial translocations involving a segment of the short arm of chromosome 10, resulting in partial on September 28, 2021 by guest. Protected trisomy lOp. However monosomy of the chromo- FIG 2 (a) Case I at 4 years of age. b) Case 2 at 2 weeks some 10 short arms was not found in any member of of age. the families. All six cases reported so far of partial monosomy lOp,2-7 as well as our second case, have arisen de novo. In contrast, all four segregation ::- possibilities, including a child with partial monosomy lOp, were found in our first family, that is, the child- ren of a mother carrying a balanced translocation t(3 ;10). In this family, in addition to one child with a normal karyotype (fig 1) and one with the same balanced translocation as his mother, a third child, a FIG 3 Partial karyotypes (G bands) (a) Mother ofcase I boy, had trisomy of the distal segment of chromo- (family A, Il.10) with translocation tr(3;10)(p27;p13). some 10 short arms with severe clinical symptoms. (b) Case I (family A, I1I.13) with del((lO)(pl3). 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It should' antimongoloid slant of the eyes and anteverted however, be pointed out that these signs are not nostrils that do not occur in trisomy l0p16 would usually observed until a certain age has been reached favour monosomy. and of the 14 patients reported, six died in early The fact that there are many more cases of childhood.