Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-x4r87 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T14:10:16.456Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Pericentric Inversion Chromosome 9 and Personality Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

H. V. Kumar ,
Kevin J. McMahon ,
K. M. Allman ,
B. McCaffrey  and
A. Rowan
H. V. Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Dublin 15, St Brendan's Hospital, Rathdown Road, Dublin 7
Kevin J. McMahon
Affiliation:
Genetics Division, Department of Pathology, University College Dublin, Dublin 2
K. M. Allman
Affiliation:
St Brendan's Hospital, Rathdown Road, Dublin 7
B. McCaffrey
Affiliation:
Team C, St Brendan's Hospital, Rathdown Road, Dublin 7
A. Rowan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, St Brendan's Hospital, Rathdown Road, Dublin 7, Ireland
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A case of pericentric inversion chromosome 9 with an associated personality disorder is reported. There is justification for a more widespread cytogenetic screening of psychiatric disorders of this type.

Type
Brief Report
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 408 - 410
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Campana, M., Serra, A. & Neri, G. (1986) Role of chromosome aberrations in recurrent abortions: a study of 269 balanced translocations. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 24, 341–356.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hsu, L. Y., Benn, P. A., Tannenbaum, H. L., et al (1987) Chromosomal polymorphisms of 1, 9, 16 and Y in 4 major ethnic groups: a large prenatal study. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 26, 95–101.Google Scholar
International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (1985) Report of the Standing Committee on Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (ed.) K. S. Karger. Basel: ISCN.Google Scholar
Jacobs, P. A. (1974) Correlation between euploid structural chromosome rearrangements and mental subnormality in humans. Nature, 249, 164–165.Google Scholar
Kaiser, P. (1984) Pericentric inversions. Problems and significance for clinical genetics. Human Genetics, 68, 1–47.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kiss, P. & Osztovics, M. (1981) Cytogenetic investigations in 817 dysmorphic babies. Zeitschrift für die Gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete, 36, 356–360.Google ScholarPubMed
Kodama, Y. (1982) Cytogenetic and dermatoglyphic studies on severely handicapped patients in an institution. Acta Medico Okayama, 36, 383–397.Google ScholarPubMed
Manolov, G., Manolova, Y., Sonnabend, J., et al (1985) Chromosome aberrations in peripheral lymphocytes of male homosexuals. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, 18, 337–350.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schinzel, A. (1984) Chromosome 9 In Catalogue of Unbalanced Chromosome Aberrations in Man, pp 350–394. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.