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Advanced Maternal Age and Down Syndrome Risk: The Chromosomal Link
The risk of having a child with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) increases with maternal age. This is because oocytes arrest in prophase I until ovulation; prolonged arrest predisposes to meiotic nondisjunction, resulting in an extra chromosome 21.
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