Taken together, these banding techniques offer clinical cytogeneticists an arsenal of staining methods for diagnosing chromosomal abnormalities in patients. In order to maximize the diagnostic ...

A woman got routine bloodwork during her second pregnancy and was shocked when the test results came back: It suggested her ...

Unlike simple mendelian disorders caused by highly penetrant ... in circumstances where well-defined mendelian traits or chromosomal aberrations have served as clues for uncovering general disease ...

The study's findings have implications for early detection and prevention of breast cancer, suggesting that chromosomal ...

The biological factory that produces reproductive cells has a robust quality control system to identify and eliminate eggs ...

There are 2 basic types of chromosomal imbalance: aberrations in chromosome numbers (numerical abnormalities) and defects in chromosome structure (structural anomalies). These can be diagnosed by ...

Many genes may be transferred between chromosomes. Such translocation mutations can cause disorders of growth, development, and function of the body's cells and systems. Human cell nuclei have 23 ...

Mosaicism has been linked to various pathologies including Turner syndrome, which is a chromosomal abnormality, and to various forms of cancer. Potential symptoms can also include cancer ...

Prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening during pregnancy is a non-invasive blood test used to look for genetic variations early in pregnancy, particularly for chromosomal abnormalities like Patau ...

DENVER -- Genetic testing and algorithms revealed that over 1% of more than 96,000 blastocyst-stage embryos had ploidy ...