aneuploid
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Genetics. (of an organism, cell, etc.) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the species' typical haploid number.
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Genetics. (of a chromosome number) not being an exact multiple of the species' typical haploid number.
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The researchers reported that a median of 3.19% of the epithelial cells in these normal breast tissues were aneuploid and over 82.67% had expanded copy number changes commonly found in invasive breast cancers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Interestingly, a woman's age correlated significantly with the frequency of aneuploid cells and number of copy number changes, with older women accumulating more of these cellular changes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Early loss of aneuploid embryos can direct maternal resources to healthier single newborns rather than twins or multiples.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2022
Nondisjunction is the failure of homologous chromosomes to separate during meiosis I or failure of sister chromatids to separate during meiosis II. This results in aneuploid gametes.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Experts hypothesize that embryos can self-correct when healthy cell lines outperform the competition, pushing the aneuploid cell lines into obsolescence.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2022
Between a quarter and a half of the cells were aneuploids, typically missing one copy of one chromosome.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2018
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