To err (meiotically) is human: The genesis of human aneuploidy

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 280-291

  Hassold, Terry ^a   Hunt, Patricia ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRISOMY;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TRISOMY;

EID: 0035319804     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35066065     Document Type: Review

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