Condition/disease | Description | References |
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Spontaneous abortions | ~25% of all spontaneous abortions (~50% of spontaneous abortions with chromosome abnormalities) exhibit chromosomal mosaicism | [17] |
Chromosomal syndromes | 3–18% (depending on chromosome) | |
Mental retardation and/or multiple congenital malformation | ~3.5% in institutionalized children | Vorsanova & Yurov, unpublished observations |
Autism | 16% in children with autism (~10% X chromosome aneuploidy in male children) | [11] |
Schizophrenia | Mosaic aneuploidy of chromosomes 1, 18 and X in cells of the schizophrenia brain; mosaic X chromosome aneuploidy in blood lymphocytes | |
Autoimmune diseases | Monosomy of chromosome X in systemic sclerosis (6.2% of cells) and autoimmune thyroid disease (4.3% of cells) | [10] |
Alzheimer disease | over 10% in brain cells; increase of aneuploidy of chromosome 21 in mitotic cells (skin fibroblasts or blood lymphocytes) | |
Meiotic aneuploidy | Chromosomal mosaicism confined to fetal ovarian tissues has potential to result into meiotic aneuploidy in conceptions | [15] |