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what percentage of total cardiac output passes through the placenta?
40%
what is aneuploidy?
an abnormal number of copies of a genomic region
what percentage of Down syndrome is due to trisomy 21?
95%
which translocations are associated with down syndrome?
t14:21, t21:21, t21;22
what percentage of errors in meiosis leading to trisomy 21 occur during spermatogenesis?
5%
what is the most common kind of chromosome rearrangement in humans?
robertsonian translocation
which are the acrocentric chromosomes?
13, 14, 15, 21, 22
when is nuchal translucency performed?
11-13 weeks gestation
what percentage of down syndrome is due to mosaicism?
2.5%
what is the incidence of down syndrome at maternal age of 40?
1 in 100
what is the incidence of down syndrome for maternal age 29?
1 in 1000
what percentage of down syndrome is due to unbalanced robertsonian translocation?
2.5%
what is the recurrence risk for parents with one affected child?
1%
what causes cyanosis?
higher than normal concentration of deoxyHb in the tissue capillaries
when is the largest drop in pulmonary vascular resistance in the newborn baby?
in the first 24-48 hours
in the fpetal circulation, how much of the blood returning to the right atrium crosses through the foramen ovale?
about half
what type of shunt will produce cyanosis?
right-to-left