[tri-med] Re: Trisomy 9 mosaic

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From: <TRIER9
> I have been contacted by a Mom with a baby with Trisomy 9 mosaic.
>>Would the
> babies Karyotype show the percentage?

Yes -but not as a percentage necessarily. The karyotype will have the number 
of cells with the trisomy 9 and the number without. You work it out from 
there. Sometimes they do include the total number of cells tested as well.

> Also, baby has malrotated intestines....any one else every deal with this?

Yes - Alex had a gut malrotation. Early in the baby's development the gut 
forms and then rotates (from memory its clockwise) back into the abdomen 
when it forms. In those with a malrotation it rotates back in the other way 
(counter-clockwise). You can have a partial malrotation as well. Often its 
not a problem and they don't do anything about it unless a problem develops. 
However sometimes they do need to correct it - Alex's was corrected when he 
was 14 months old.
Its quite common in kids with a trisomy, and it occurs in people without a 
trisomy as well.

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