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FOR some time cytogeneticists have been concerned with the question of whether structural chromosome rearrangements in humans, while apparently balanced, can have deleterious effects, either physical or mental. I wish to report data which suggest that the latter at least is possible.
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JACOBS, P. Correlation between euploid structural chromosome rearrangements and mental subnormality in humans. Nature 249, 164–165 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249164a0
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