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ivanech • today at 4:21 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Mosaic trisomy, where only a subset of cells have extra chromosomes, is possible for essentially any chromosome including 21.

This makes some trisomies survivable, e.g., trisomy 16 which is otherwise incompatible with live birth.


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teekert • today at 4:25 PM

Hmm in that case his germline cells could be ok...