Chromosome 11 consists of approximately 144 Mb of DNA [1], representing around 5% of the human genome. Meiotic linkage analysis suggests a sex-averaged genetic map of approximately 162 cM [2]. The ...

Attached to nearly every human cell is an antenna-like structure known as the primary cilium, which senses the cell's ...

Karyotype analysis plays a central role in cytogenetics, helping to reveal evolutionary processes and species relationships.

Down syndrome, the most frequent birth defect (around 1/700 births), results in most cases from the presence in all cells of an extra copy of chromosome 21. It is characterized by a complex and ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a simple and economical technique for imaging and mapping fruit fly chromosomes. This new approach will enable them to construct the first ...

Scientists are finally done mapping the human genome, more than two decades after the first draft was completed, researchers announced Thursday. About 8% of genetic material had been impossible to ...

British scientists have mapped chromosome 20, the third and longest chromosome to be sequenced in the Human Genome Project. Chromosome 20 is best known for harboring genes that contribute to forms of ...

French and American scientists have mapped chromosome 14, the longest sequenced to date and the site of more than 60 disease genes, including one linked to early-onset Alzheimer's. The feat, enlisting ...

In what might be a surprise for some, the male sex chromosome is far more complex than its female counterpart. This is why it’s taken scientists so long to work out exactly what makes a male a male.

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Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Germany), Amsterdam UMC ...