Klaus Patau

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Klaus Patau (30 September 1908 – 30 November 1975; born Klaus Pätau; pronounced

trisomy 13.[2] The syndrome caused by trisomy 13 is often called Patau syndrome. It is also known as Bartholin-Patau syndrome, since the clinical picture associated with trisomy 13 was described by Thomas Bartholin in 1656.[3] At the time, laboratory techniques were unable to distinguish between chromosomes of similar size, so chromosomes were grouped into seven groups by size, lettered A through G. Chromosomes 13 through 15 were in group D, so Patau originally named his eponymous syndrome "trisomy D".[4]

Patau was in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as was his wife and collaborator, the Finnish cytogeneticist Eeva Therman (1916–2004). John M. Opitz completed his fellowship under Patau.

His son, Peter Hinrich Patau (1942—2017), was a journalist who contributed to several Wisconsin publications.[5]

References

  1. ^ Bergsma, Daniel (ed.). 1965. New Directions in Human Genetics: A Symposium. New York: The National Foundation—March of Dimes, p. 72.
  2. ^ K. Patau, D. W. Smith, E. Therman, S. L. Inhorn, H. P. Wagner: Multiple congenital anomaly caused by an extra autosome.The Lancet, 1960, I: 790.
  3. ^ Bartholinus, Thomas (1656). Historiarum anatomicarum rariorum centuria III et IV. Ejusdem cura accessere observationes anatomicae. The Hague: Vlacq. p. 95.
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  5. ^ "Patau, Peter Hinrich". Madison.com. Madison. September 2, 2017.


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