Most aneuploid cells are stillborn or growth-retarded.But in the rare survivor, he suggests, the dosage of thousands of genes is altered.

• 多数的非整倍体细胞不是夭折，就是生长迟滞，但杜斯伯格认为，在稀少的存活者当中，几千个基因的份数遭到了改变。