Homozygosity for Per ic ntric I versions of Chrom so e 9 in a Patient ' s Parents wit S· bir th - Re ort of a New Case and Review f Lite ature

Pen centric inversions of chromosome 9 are among the most frequent chromosomal rearrangement in human . a few cytogeneticistsconsider inversions of chromosome 9 as a normal variant. however, many reports in the recent literature linkpericentric inversions of chromosome 9 with infertility, recurrent abortions, and a number of other abnormal conditions. wereport a case of h m zygosity p ricentric inversions of chromosome 9 in 1i woman with 28- wk stillb irth. in this case, herboth pare nts were heterozygotes for the inversions of chromosome 9.