Never in neutral: a systems biology and evolutionary perspective on how aneuploidy contributes to human diseases.

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Whereas germline-inherited whole-chromosome aneuploidy has long been known to cause miscarriages and developmental abnormalities, somatically acquired aneuploidies have been observed in cancer cells and more recently also in cells of the normal liver and brain. Furthermore, aneuploidy is being increasingly reported in clinical isolates of pathogenic microbes such as fungi and parasites. Whereas many efforts have...

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