Elsevier

Genomics

Volume 13, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 269-274
Genomics

Uniparental isodisomy due to duplication of chromosome 21 occuring in somatic cells monosomic for chromosome 21

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Abstract

Uniparental disomy has been recently recognized as an important phenomenon in non-Mendelian inheritance of human genetic disorders. Several mechanisms for uniparental disomy, i.e., the presence of two homologous chromosomes derived from one parent, have been proposed. We studied two independent cases of abnormalities of chromosome 21 in which there were abnormal karyotypes at birth but blood cells with normal karyotype predominated later in life, and the cells with abnormalities disappeared. Uniparental isodisomy was observed in the normal cells in these individuals. The uniparental disomy in these families was the result of duplication of a chromosome in mitosis after the loss of the homologous abnormal chromosome. The duplication can be seen as a mechanism for cell survival and is called here “compensatory” isodisomy, which provided a selective advantage for the cell population with the normal number of chromosomes 21.

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