Trisomic rescue (also known as trisomy rescue or trisomy zygote rescue) is a genetic phenomenon in which a fertilized ovum containing three copies of a chromosome loses one of these chromosomes (anaphase lag) to form a diploid chromosome complement.[1] If both of the retained chromosomes come from the same parent, then uniparental disomy results. If the retained chromosomes come from different parents (that is, one copy from each) then there are no phenotypic or genotypic anomalies. The mechanism of trisomic rescue has been well confirmed in vivo, and alternative mechanisms that occur in trisomies are rare in comparison.[2]
Many trisomic conditions result in stillborn infants (major exceptions include trisomies 13, 18, 21). Trisomic rescue may be a natural means to keep a fetus as viable as possible (though uniparental disomy may occur and result in syndromes such as Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes due to genetic imprinting). Indeed, spontaneous trisomic rescue has been observed in vitro.[3] Similarly, monosomic rescue may also be a natural means to keep fetal viability via restoration of a disomic zygote.
References edit
- ^ Balbeur, Samuel; et al. (2 February 2016). "Trisomy rescue mechanism: the case of concomitant mosaic trisomy 14 and maternal uniparental disomy 14 in a 15‐year‐old girl". Clinical Case Reports. 4 (3): 265–271. doi:10.1002/ccr3.501. PMC 4771849. PMID 27014449.
- ^ Chantot-Bastaraud, Sandra; et al. (2017). "Formation of upd(7)mat by trisomic rescue: SNP array typing provides new insights in chromosomal nondisjunction". Molecular Cytogenetics. 10 (28): 28. doi:10.1186/s13039-017-0329-1. PMC 5526280. PMID 28770003.
- ^ Inoue, Momoko; Kajiwara, Kazuhiro; Yamaguchi, Ayumi; Kiyono, Tohru; Samura, Osamu; Akutsu, Hidenori; Sago, Haruhiko; Okamoto, Aikou; Umezawa, Akihiro (June 2019). "Autonomous trisomic rescue of Down syndrome cells". Laboratory Investigation. 99 (6): 885–897. doi:10.1038/s41374-019-0230-0. ISSN 1530-0307. PMC 6760570. PMID 30760866.
External links edit
 | This genetics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |