Chromosomal Mutations: Aneuploidy
Aneuploidy is a chromosome mutation that alters the number of individual chromosomes. This text explores different types of aneuploidy, and how such chromosome mutations are tolerated in humans.
Topics
- 2n − 1
- 2n + 1
- aneuploid
- aneuploidy
- autosomal chromosome aneuploidy
- autosome
- chromosome
- chromosome mutation
- chromosome number
- chromosome variation
- dosage compensation
- Down syndrome
- Edwards syndrome
- eukaryotic chromosome
- gene dosage
- Klinefelter syndrome
- meiotic nondisjunction
- monosomy
- Patau syndrome
- sex chromosome aneuploidy
- sex chromosome
- trisomy 21
- trisomy XXX
- trisomy
- Turner syndrome
- X-chromosome inactivation
- X-chromosome