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A miscarried fetus has primary Trisomy 16 (3 separate chromosome 16's). The chromosome 16's of the fetus, mother, and father were tested for a common polymorphism involving this chromosome. Four types of polymorphisms commonly occur in the population: A, B, C, and D. The results were: fetus = ABC, mother = AB, father = CD. When and where did the mis-segregation (non-disjunction) event causing trisomy 16 in the fetus most likely occur?
Four types of polymorphisms were found in chromosome 16 trisomy as A, B, C and D. Fetus had the ABC polymorphism while mother and father had AB and CD respectively. The fetus contain two pairs from mother and one pair from father. So, non disjunction of chromosomes could have occurred in the anaphase II stage of meiosis during the development of ovum.