Why We Donât Know The Size Of The Transgender Population. In 2001, Kerith Conron was working on LGBT issues in Bostonâs health department. She discovered that homeless transgender people were sleeping on benches because the shelters, which were segregated by gender, didnât know what to do with them.
Chromosome abnormalities usually occur when there is an error in cell division. There are two kinds of cell division, mitosis and meiosis. Mitosis results in two cells that are duplicates of the original cell. One cell with 46 chromosomes divides and becomes two cells with 46 chromosomes each.
Spontaneous chromosome errors: Most chromosomal diseases arise spontaneously from parents where neither has the disease. A large genetic mistake typically occurs in the woman's egg, which may partially explain why older women are more likely to have babies with Down syndrome.