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Many medical conditions, especially inherited ones, e.g, Down Syndrome.


I don’t know much about it, but a source used by Wikipedia says:

“It is also possible for a non-disjunction to happen after fertilization (about a 1-2% chance). In this case, some of the patient's cells are normal and some contain the extra chromosome. This is called mosaicism. Patients with this type of Down syndrome have milder symptoms.”

https://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/genetics/down_syndrome.aspx




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