Over the past 20 years, the parental origin of the extra chromosome in children with trisomy 21 has been investigated with cytogenetic methods of identifying morphologic variations in chromosome 21. These studies have concluded that the origin of the extra chromosome 21 was maternal in approximately 80 percent of cases and paternal in about 20 percent.

DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199103283241302
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