“…Of the 42 previously reported patients with partial trisomy 6p, 28 involved inheritance from a parental balanced translocation [Fryns et al, 1983;Katafuchi et al, 1992;Wauters et al, 1993;Nakajima et al, 1995;Song and Li, 1996;Rothlisberger et al, 1999], three from a pericentric inversion [Wauters et al, 1993], ten were de novo [Turleau et al, 1978;Muneer et al, 1984;Eden et al, 1985;Burd et al, 1988;Chaveau et al, 1988;Wauters et al, 1993;Rudnik-Schoneborn et al, 1996;Delatycki et al, 1999;Villa et al, 2000], and one was directly inherited from an unbalanced parent [Delatycki et al, 1999]. The proximal breakpoint varied from p11 to p25 [Lytle et al, 1986;Scarbrough et al, 1986].…”