Double mosaic aneuploidy: 45,X/47,XY,+8 in a male infant

Am J Med Genet. 1992 Sep 1;44(1):7-10. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320440103.

Abstract

We report on a 13-month-old boy with abnormalities consistent with mosaic trisomy 8 syndrome and male genitalia with partial penoscrotal transposition without hypospadias, a retractile left testis in inguinal canal, and an absent right testis. A voiding cystourethrogram showed an outpouching close to the lower right side of the bladder (utriculum) and bilateral hydronephrosis secondary to vesicoureteral reflux. Peripheral blood karyotype was 45,X/47,XY,+8. The karyotype of cultured skin fibroblasts was 47,XY,+8 with no 45,X cells detected among 20 cells counted. Tissues removed during surgery documented a 45,X/47,XY,+8 complement in the left testicle and utriculum, but only a 45,X line among 20 cells counted from vas deferens tissue. A possible mechanism for the origin of this previously unreported mosaicism might be an abnormal zygote with a 47,XY,+8 complement with subsequent simultaneous loss of chromosome Y and 8 in a cell at a very early embryonic stage.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aneuploidy*
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Karyotyping
  • Male
  • Mosaicism*
  • Sex Chromosome Aberrations*
  • Trisomy*