The term uniparental disomy was originally used by Eric Engel [1] in 1980. Under normal circumstances humans have 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes, one of each homologous pair ...

To date, most cases of uniparental disomy—having two copies of a chromosome from either mom or dad, rather than one from each—have been identified in the context of disease, but a new study from ...

A genomic analysis from 23andMe suggests that people inherit two copies of a chromosome from only one parent nearly twice as often as researchers had realized. A series of rodent experiments showed ...