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What is a disomy?

What is a disomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cytology) The normal state of a diploid eukaryotic cell or individual which has two members of a pair of homologous chromosomes in each nucleus. A normal chromosome is represented twice in a single cell.
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They looked for sperm disomy, which occurs when sperm cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes.
They also identify long contiguous stretches of homozygosity, which may suggest an increased likelihood for a recessive condition or uniparental disomy.
Uniparental disomy and imprinting modify gene expression with passage through maternal or paternal meiosis.
Of further interest is the report describing uniparental disomy, the presence of both chromosomes inherited from 1 parent as the result of disomic rescue.
Discordant results between fetal karyotyping and non-invasive prenatal testing by maternal plasma sequencing in a case of uniparental disomy 21 due to trisomic rescue.
In a complete molar pregnancy, both sets of chromosomes are from the father, a condition known as paternal uniparental disomy.

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