• Question: What is aneuploidy? What are the conditions caused by the aneuploidies?

    Asked by dantetwinkzz69 to Katie, Kat, Andrew on 21 Jun 2013.
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      Andrew Swale answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Aneuploidy refers to an abnormal number of chromosomes (resulting from a gain or loss)

      The most common is Down’s syndrome, followed by Klinefelter syndrome.

      But there are many many more, however the majority of aneuploidies result in unviable births

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