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xclash

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on: Jun 25, 2018
Following a successful bone marrow transplant as treatment for a hematopoietic disorder, what is the term used if the recipient's cells have a normal karyotype?
 
  a. Partial engraftment
  b. Chimerism
  c. Mosaic
  d. Aneuploid

Question 2

A cytogenetic analysis is performed, and the result is inv (7) (q21q32). Name the structural aberration, and explain how it was formed.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: This structural aberration is paracentric inversion caused by the occurrence of two breaks and the material inverts between the breaksand then is repaired. Paracentric inversions do not involve the centromere.


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