| Range |
1-3 %
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| Organism |
Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference |
McFadden DE, Kwong LC, Yam IY, Langlois S. Parental origin of triploidy in human fetuses: evidence for genomic imprinting. Hum Genet. 1993 Nov92(5):465-9.PubMed ID7902318
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| Primary Source |
Jacobs PA, Angell RR, Buchanan IM, Hassold TJ, Matsuyama AM, Manuel B. The origin of human triploids. Ann Hum Genet. 1978 Jul42(1):49-57.PubMed ID686684
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| Comments |
Triploidy is a chromosomal abnormality, which is estimated
to occur in 1%-3% of recognized human conceptions. It consists of the presence of an
extra haploid set of chromosomes for a total, in humans,
of 69 chromosomes. Polyspermy is the most common mechanism leading to human triploids (Otto et al 2000, PMID 11092833), and according to primary source: The best fit for the data using a maximum-likelihood method was that 66.4% of the triploids were the result of dispermy, 23.6% the result of fertilization of a haploid ovum by a diploid sperm formed by failure of the first meiotic division in the male and 10% the result of a diploid egg formed by failure of the first maternal meiotic division. |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
105419 |