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Prenatal search for UPD 14 and UPD 15 in 83 cases of familial and <i>de novo</i> heterologous Robertsonian translocations
15 Dec 2004
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OBJECTIVES: The presence in the conceptus of a Robertsonian translocation predisposes to UPD formation, mainly by post-zygotic events of chromosome abnormality rescue. This is due to the increased risk of generating aneuploid zygotes because the rearranged chromosome and the respective homologues are prone to non-disjunction errors. Given this, carriers and karyotypically normal individuals conceived from a...
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