Mosaicism

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Etiology 3 More General Terms 4 References

Introduction

• The juxtaposition in any organism of genetically different tissues.

Etiology

• lyonization in females (normal)
• somatic mutation
• chimerism

More General Terms

• biochemistry

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.

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