Just as species adapt over generations, our body's cells accumulate DNA changes throughout life. Most are harmless, yet a few ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

Examples of these so-called acrocentric chromosomes are chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22. Acrocentric chromosomes are unusual in other ways that contribute to differences among ape species.

and there is a growing number of reports indicating its importance in rare disease genetics (Melo et al., 2020; Eisfeldt et al., 2022). Using public datasets, we found that the TAD landscape of a ...

The patient is a 13-year-old white female who was evaluated ... was that it was derived from an initial pericentric inversion in chromosome 7 with breakpoints at bands 7p15.3 and 7q11.23 followed ...

The incomplete hippocampal inversion (IHI) is an atypical anatomical pattern of the hippocampus which prominent features are a round, verticalized, and medially positioned hippocampus and a deep ...

Fine-scale deletion-bin and genetic mapping revealed that 83% of ESTs were syntenic between wheat and rice, a far higher level of synteny than previously reported, and 6% were nonsyntenic (not located ...