# Triploidy

INSERM

## Source

INSERM. (1999). Orphanet: an online rare disease and orphan drug data base. *Triploidy*.

ORPHA:3376

Triploidy is a rare chromosomal anomaly, polyploidy, characterized by early in utero growth restriction, and multiple birth defects, including neural tube defects, facial abnormalities, cleft lip/palate, congenital heart anomalies, genital malformations, and peripheral skeletal abnormalities. It is usually prenatally lethal.