how will my babies health be effected with deletion chromosome 2?
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"The case of a young man with del(2) (p11.2p13) is reported. Accounts of previous cases of deletion of the short arm of chromosome 2 are reviewed. Common features include mental retardation, proportional short stature and weight, dysmorphic facial features (a prominent nose, abnormal ears), and abnormal hands. Growth and developmental delay are present during the postnatal period"\n\nhttp://jmg.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/7/604
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down's syndrome is a disease that results from gaining an extra autosome through nondisjunction.  It effects autosome 21.
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There is a risk of having an unhealthy baby at any age. The risks of having a baby with Down's syndrome or other genetic disorders, for instance, increase over time with the age of the mother, but there are still lots of healthy babies who are born to women in their forties.
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It is slightly more complicated. Prenatally a baby has what are called ovatesties. These will either become ovaries or testicles. On the Y chromosome is a gene (SRY) sex determining region of Y chromosome. It can get put on an X if a mutation occurs. Anyway sometime during development the SRY gene get turned on. This produces testosterone will cause the rest of he sexual organs to develop. \nThe X chromosome contains many genes that can produce different affect in different cells. Only one is need (the other is a Barr body) and the other has many functions in the cell. If you look at a calico cat for instance this will show you the best example. A calico being female has too X chromosomes. In some cells the maternal X is active and in others the paternal X. This shows up in the coat pattern.
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Your baby will be multi-racial. Like much of the world truly is. I hope it doesn't worry you! If it bothers people, they are not your friends anyway!
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Go back to before the child is concieved.  Back to the creation of these specific gametes.\n\nIn the meiosis process that created the gametes, one of the gametes that eventually combined to create the person ended up having an extra chromosome.\n\nInstead of the spindle fibres pulling the chromosomes apart perfectly in half ( "n" to each pole), one side of the cell got "n-1" and one got "n+1".  The gamete with "n-1" probably died from too little information, but the one with "n+1" ended up combining into the zygote and eventually became the coding for the person with Down's syndrome.\n\nDown's syndrome has an entire extra 21 chromosome.
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Good God man you are on the net, you have more information than you know what to do with right at your finger tips. Go to Yahoo's main page and type genetics into the search bar.
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The mother and child will have *nearly* identical DNA.  There will be a few mutations because mutations are ubiquitous, but 99.99+% of their DNA will be the same.
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If the baby has no medical conditions or problems, the next check up would be at 2 years old.
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Not sure if this will help but try the link below\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/gene
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Sure, there's no problem. I think that you are confusing this with rh problems that a developing baby can have, but its unrelated to this.
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It depends on the kind of muscular dystrophy your family has whether it will be passed on to what gender children you have, first of all. I'm guessing that they aren't all boys. If that is the case then there could be a chance that one of your X chromosomes (if you are a female) is carrying the latent form of the disease. \n\nMales are born with XY chromosomes and females with XX (if you did't already know this). That being the case, males tend to get diseases that are X-linked---that are 'carried' on the X chromosome because they don't have another X chromosome to block out the effects of the one bad X. \n\nAnother factor is whether you are a man or woman (I couldn't tell from your question). If you are female, your X chromosome COULD have a latent form of the disease on it. I dbout you do have a 'bad' X if you are female, however. If your father tested negative for muscular dystrophy, and he passed his X chromosome to you (which he did if you are female remember) you would have no underlying problems in your genes to pass on to your offspring. \nIf you are male, you recieved your X chromosome from your mother by default, so unless MD runs in that side of the famiy too, I think you don't have to worry about passing it to your children. \n\nIn conclusion, I think you are safe. But because I am NOT a doctor or geneticist and I rather not be blamed if your child does end up with muscular dystrophy one day, I suggest you see a doctor for more solid answers. \nI hope this helps you otherwise, and I included a link if you are interested.
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It is the chromosome after #2.  It is the reason why your momma dresses you funny and your daddy disowns you.
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high blood pressure, decreased fertility, heart disease, asthma, lung disease, emphysema, chronic pneumonia, various cancers, etc.\nWomen are likely to have babies that are low birthweight also.
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I don't know.  All I know is that a chance is just that, a chance.  It does not mean that your baby has Down's... I have heard of mothers that had perfectly healthy babies after being told there was something "wrong."  Good luck to you and your little one.
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Uhhh, because that's gross.\nAnd your babies come out deformed and retarded.\nNot even kidding.\nIt causes defects.\nNow can you please go read the whole damn dictionary?