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Down's syndrome or Mongoloid idiocy (Mon...

Down's syndrome or Mongoloid idiocy (Mongolism) is due to

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trisomy off X chromosome

B

trisomy of 21st chromosome

C

nullisomy of a chromosome

D

monosomy of an autosome

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