Uniparental Disomy
By Levi Clancy for Student Reader on
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- Genetic disease
- Androgen Insensitivity
- Balanced Rearrangement
- Cancer genetics
- Chromosome Number Abnormalities
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Down Syndrome
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Hemoglobinopathy
- Huntington Disease
- Hurler Syndrome
- Hyperphenylalaninemia
- Nondisjunction
- Penis-At-Twelve Syndrome
- Relative Risk
- Sickle Cell Disease
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Tay-Sachs Disease
- Thalassemia
- Triplet Repeat Expansions
- Trisomy 13
- Trisomy 18
- Unbalanced Rearrangement
- Uniparental Disomy
- mRNA Splicing Aberrations
Uniparental disomy of a chromosome may arise via confined placental mosaicism, a condition where a trisomic fetus loses one of its trisomic chromosomes. For that chromosome pair, the fetus has only alleles from one parent remaining; however, the placenta is still trisomic.