
Trisomy 13
With March being Trisomy Awareness Month, we'd like to take a moment to provide a brief bit of information about and attention to the different three different types of trisomies. Today, we'll talk about Trisomy 13. Trisomy 13, also known as Patau Syndrome, is caused by a person's 13th chromosome occurring three times instead of twice. The occurrence can either be present in all of the cells, or part of them. The partial occurrence is called mosaicism. Trisomy 13 is a rare co