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Types of chromosomal variants | Type | Possible risk factors | Commonly occurring abnormal chromosomes | Reference |
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Chromosomal abnormalities in embryos | Number anomalies | Aneuploidy (trisomy, monosomy) | Meiotic error, mitotic error and abnormal parental chromosome structure | Chromosomes 13, 16, 18, 21 and 22; x chromosome | [98, 101] |
Polyploid | Double sperm into the egg or meiotic non-separation of the egg; Mitotic non-separation of fertilized eggs | | [100] |
Structural anomalies | Abnormal equilibrium translocation structure | Spontaneous mutation by internal and external environmental influences, inherited by couples carrying abnormal chromosome structure | | [120] |
Non-equilibrium translocation structural abnormalities |
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Chromosomal abnormalities in couples | Structural anomalies | Reciprocal balanced translocations | An exchange of DNA segments between nonhomologous chromosomes with no gain or loss of DNA | Chromosomes 11, 6, 4, 1, and 18 were the most commonly translocated chromosomes | [37, 111, 112] |
Robertsonian translocations |
Inversion | Production of unbalanced gametes | Chromosomes 1, 9 and 11 are the most common | [113, 121] |
CNV | Gene deletion or increase | Chromosome 6 duplication was the most common, followed by X chromosome deletion and triplet chromosome abnormalities | [106, 122] |
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Chromosome polymorphism | Affects mitophase function, sister chromatid binding and chromosome segregation | Inv (9) | [104, 114, 115] |
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Special chromosomal anomalies | CPM | Placental insufficiency, fetal growth restriction and death | | [106] |
XCI | Increased risk of spontaneous abortion in female carriers of X-linked recessive fetal lethal defects | x chromosome | [117, 118, 123], [124] |
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