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n. - Meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate.

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  • When nondisjunction occurs, the resulting eggs may carry too few or too many chromosomes, a state called aneuploidy.
  • Embryos that are trisomic contain, instead of matched pairs of chromosomes, one too many of a given chromosome, most commonly chromosome 13, 18, 21 (which is responsible for...
  • Koehler KE, Hawley RS, Sherman S, Hassold T (1996) Recombination and nondisjunction in humans and flies.
  • Shi Q, King RW (2005) Chromosome nondisjunction yields tetraploid rather than aneuploid cells in human cell lines.
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