Mosaic Chromosomal Aneuploidy
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ABSTRACT: Mosaic chromosomal aneuploidy occurs when only a subset of cells carries an abnormal number of chromosomes. Mosaic aneuploidy has been reported in multiple types of diseases. Here we have developed a new sequencing-based approach to identify, characterize and quantify mosaic aneuploidy events in human tissue samples. This ongoing study has begun with results from sequencing data from two clinical patients, one with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the other with hemihyperplasia (OMIM 235000). We captured ~100,000 common SNPs from the samples to identify the nature of the mosaic aneuploidy events in each of the samples.
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