Mosaicism for structural non-centromeric autosomal rearrangement in prenatal diagnoses: evidence for sex-specific selection against chromosomal abnormalities

Abstract Background Mosaicism for chromosome rearrangements is common in preimplantation diagnoses, yet is rare in prenatal diagnoses as well as in other groups of patients referred to cytogenetic testing. Consequently, there is a lack of detailed studies on this kind of mosaicism in all groups of p...

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Main Authors: Natalia V. Kovaleva, Philip D. Cotter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:Molecular Cytogenetics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13039-017-0346-0