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Non-mosaic trisomy 16 in a third-trimester fetus.
Obstetrics and gynecology - 1 May 1996
Yancey M K, Hardin E L, Pacheco C, Kuslich C D, Donlon T A
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BACKGROUND: Trisomy 16 in the most common trisomy first-trimester spontaneous abortions, suggesting a high rate of non-disjunction of this chromosome. Deoxyribonucleic acid studies in aborted conceptuses with trisomy 16 have demonstrated a maternal origin in all cases. There have been cases of confined placental mosaicism, fetal mosaicism, and partial trisomy involving chromosome 16 reported in term fetuses....
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