Neural Tube Defects and Chromosome Deletions

Abstract

Patients with neural tube defects (NTDs) complicated by congenital heart defects, facial anomalies, thymic hypoplasia, cleft lip or palate, or hypocalcemia and a family history of NTDs and other anomalies were tested for 22qll deletions at the Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics, Oregon Health Sciences University, Eugene, Oregon.

Keywords

• neural tube defects
• hypocalcemia
• conotruncal defect