Mosaic Trisomy 5: Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis and Outcomes of a New Case

Abstract

Chromosomal mosaicism is defined as the presence of two or more different cell lines in an organism that originate from the same embryo. Trisomy of chromosome 5 is one of the most severe forms of autosomal trisomy and only seven cases of mosaic trisomy 5 have been reported to date. Mosaicism at prenatal level constitutes a challenge in genetic counseling, particularly in the case of mosaic trisomy 5, due to its low incidence. We report the case of a girl with a prenatal diagnosis of mosaic trisomy 5. The pre- and postnatal genetic tests (noninvasive prenatal testing, array comparative genomic hybridization, karyotype in amniotic fluid cells, karyotype in peripheral blood, and uniparental disomy analysis) revealed the fetal chromosomal status and indicated etiology giving rise to the mosaicism, suggesting a prezygotic meiotic error corrected through late trisomic rescue in the zygote.

Keywords

trisomy 5 - mosaicism - prenatal diagnosis - trisomic rescue

^* These authors contributed equally to the present work.

Publication History

Received: 01 August 2020

Accepted: 11 October 2020

Article published online:
19 November 2020

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