In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

We previously reported suggestive linkage between type 2 diabetes and markers in a region on chromosome 20q using data from a collection of 29 Caucasian families in which type 2 diabetes with ...

(The Guardian) In a surprise finding, the silent X chromosome in female mice awakened late in life ... (npj Parkinson's ...

Figure 2 shows an example of a spectral karyotype ... to generate a false-color image (Figure 2b) that depicts each chromosome in a distinctive color. The chromosomes were then arranged into ...

Jerome Lejeune in France and Patricia Jacobs in the United States were able to identify a supernumerary copy of chromosome 21 in karyotypes prepared from DS patients (Figure 2). Trisomy 21 is now ...

HIV-1 Vif induces a unique and prolonged pseudo-metaphase arrest by disrupting phosphatase feedback regulation at the kinetochore.