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Trisomy is a mutation that results in a cell having an extra

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Down syndrome is an example of a condition caused by trisomy. People with Down syndrome typically have three copies of chromosome 21 in each cell, for a total of 47 chromosomes per cell. Monosomy, or the loss of one chromosome in cells, is another kind of aneuploidy
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