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Two possible mechanisms behind the birth of small chromosomes are shown (adapted from Ahmad et al., 2013). (1) The small chromosome (a) originated by segmental duplication within chromosome A. (2) Interchromosomal translocation, where a large segment of chromosome A is translocated to join the chromosome B leaving the rest of chromosome A as a small chromosome.
