The term chimera has been borrowed from Greek mythology and has a long history of use in
biology and genetics. A chimera is an organism whose cells are derived from two or more …

Simple Summary Congenital lateralized or segmental overgrowth (LO) disorders are
conditions characterized by excessive tissue growth of a body region often associated with a …

Background Imprinting disorders, which affect growth, development, metabolism and
neoplasia risk, are caused by genetic or epigenetic changes to genes that are expressed …

Beckwith–Wiedemann Spectrum (BWSp) is the most common epigenetic childhood cancer
predisposition disorder. BWSp is caused by (epi) genetic changes affecting the BWS critical …

Ploidy or genome‐wide chromosomal anomalies such as triploidy, diploid/triploid
mixoploidy, chimerism, and genome‐wide uniparental disomy are the cause of molar …

Some human preimplantation embryos are chromosomally mosaic. For technical reasons,
estimates of the overall frequency vary widely from< 15 to> 90% and the true frequency …

Simple Summary Placental mesenchymal dysplasia (PMD) is a morphological abnormality
resembling partial hydatidiform moles without abnormal trophoblastic proliferation. In PMD …

Here we describe for the first time double paternal uniparental isodisomy (iUPD) 7 and 15 in
a baby boy with features in the Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome spectrum (BWSp) …

Mosaic genome‐wide paternal uniparental disomy (GWpUPD) is a rare condition in which
two euploid cell lines coexist in the same individual, one with biparental content and one …

Objectives To investigate the prenatal detection rate of mosaicism by SNP microarray
analysis, in which an individual has not one, but two, complete genomes (sets of DNA) in …