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Nonreciprocal translocation
Introduction
In genetics, a nonreciprocal translocation is a chromosome abnormality referring to the one-way transfer of a chromosomal segment from one non-homologous chromosome to another. It is a type of chromosomal translocation, along with reciprocal (non-Robertsonian) translocation. Unlike reciprocal translocation however, nonreciprocal translocation does not involve the exchange of chromosomal segments between two chromosomes. Nonreciprocal translocation is a one-way transfer, rather than two-way exchange, of one chromosomal segment from its original locus to a locus on a non-homologous chromosome.