The major diseases mapped to chromosome 16 are adult polycystic kidney disease and those resulting from mutations in the alpha globin complex. There are at least six other less important genetic ...
Each cell in the human body has 23 pairs of chromosomes ... as well as missing copies of chromosome 16. The most frequent chromosome changes in these healthy women were extra copies in chromosome ...
In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.