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An examination of the relationship between hotspots and recombination associated with chromosome 21 nondisjunction.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Oliver Tiffany Renee, Middlebrooks Candace D, Tinker Stuart W, Allen Emily Graves, Bean Lora J H, Begum Ferdouse, Feingold Eleanor, Chowdhury Reshmi, Cheung Vivian, Sherman Stephanie L
Abstract excerpt
Trisomy 21, resulting in Down Syndrome (DS), is the most common autosomal trisomy among live-born infants and is caused mainly by nondisjunction of chromosome 21 within oocytes. Risk factors for nondisjunction depend on the parental origin and type of meiotic error. For errors in the oocyte, incr...
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