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Triploid pregnancy-Clinical implications.
Clinical genetics - 1 Oct 2021
Massalska Diana, Bijok Julia, Kucińska-Chahwan Anna, Zimowski Janusz Grzegorz, Ozdarska Katarzyna, Panek Grzegorz, Roszkowski Tomasz
Abstract excerpt
Triploidy is a life-limiting genetic aberration resulting from an extra haploid set of chromosomes of paternal (diandric triploidy) or maternal origin (digynic triploidy). Triploidy affects around 1%-2% of all conceptions. The majority of cases is miscarried at early developmental stages. In consequence of genomic imprinting, parental origin affects the phenotype of triploid pregnancies as well as the prevalence...
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