Full Text of HR0124 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, A trisomy is a type of polysomy in which there are | 3 | | three instances of a particular chromosome, instead of the | 4 | | normal two; a trisomy is a type of aneuploidy, an abnormal | 5 | | number of chromosomes; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Most organisms have pairs of chromosomes in each | 7 | | cell, with one chromosome inherited from each parent; in such | 8 | | organisms, a process called meiosis creates cells called | 9 | | gametes that have only one set of chromosomes; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The number of chromosomes is different for | 11 | | different species; humans have 46 chromosomes, or 23 pairs of | 12 | | chromosomes, and human gametes have only 23 chromosomes; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, If the chromosome pairs fail to separate properly | 14 | | during cell division, the egg or sperm may end up with a second | 15 | | copy of one of the chromosomes; if such a gamete results in | 16 | | fertilization and an embryo, the resulting embryo may also have | 17 | | an entire copy of the extra chromosome; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Full trisomy, also called primary trisomy, means | 19 | | that an entire extra chromosome has been copied; partial | 20 | | trisomy means that there is an extra copy of part of a | 21 | | chromosome; secondary trisomy means the extra chromosome has |
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| 1 | | quadruplicated arms; tertiary trisomy means the extra | 2 | | chromosome is made up of copies of arms from two other | 3 | | chromosomes; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Trisomies can occur with any chromosome but often | 5 | | result in a miscarriage, rather than a live birth; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Trisomy 16 is the most common trisomy in human | 7 | | pregnancies, occurring in more than one percent of pregnancies; | 8 | | and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Pregnancies in which some normal cells occur in | 10 | | addition to the trisomic cells, or mosaic trisomy 16, survive; | 11 | | this condition, however, usually results in a spontaneous | 12 | | miscarriage in the first trimester; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The most common types of autosomal trisomy that | 14 | | survive to birth in humans are Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), | 15 | | Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome), and | 16 | | Trisomy 8 (Warkany syndrome 2); therefore, be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 18 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 | | we declare the month of March 2019 as Trisomy Awareness Month | 20 | | in the State of Illinois, and we urge all citizens of this | 21 | | State to become aware of the different types of Trisomy; and be |
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| 2 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 3 | | presented to Governor J.B. Pritzker and all Illinois | 4 | | Constitutional officers.
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