Sunday, April 12, 2009

Aneuploidy

In a trisomy (1), only one of the chromosomes is
present threefold; all other chromosome pairs
are normal. Rarely, two different trisomies
occur, for two different chromosomes (double
aneuploidy). If one chromosome of a pair is
missing, it is referred to as monosomy (2).

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