What causes mosaicism?
CMTC and the other vascular malformations within this brochure are all believed to be due to mosaicism.
Mosaicism may be caused by an error in mitosis. Mitosis (my-TOH-sis) is the dividing of body cells. It’s how a baby in the womb grows. Mitosis causes the number of chromosomes to double to 92, and then split in half back to 46. This process repeats constantly as the baby grows. Mitosis continues throughout your lifetime. It replaces skin cells, blood cells, and other types of cells that are damaged or naturally die.
If there is an error in mitosis, a cell doesn’t split evenly into 2 cells. The result is that some cells have the normal number of 46 chromosomes, and other cells have more (47) or fewer (45) chromosomes.
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This brochure contains:
- Who is CMTC Alliance
- The FANS (Family Advancement Network Services) Project
- The Global Delegates Project
- A description of CMTC, DCMO, KTS, CLOVES
- Vascular malformation description
- Associated Health Concerns
