Inside of each of your cells are thread-like structures made up of parts called chromosomes. These tightly wound threads are what people mean when they refer to your DNA. It’s a blueprint for cell ...

Abnormalities in the structure of chromosomes within someone’s genetic makeup are called structural chromosomal abnormalities. Robertsonian translocations are very rare structural chromosomal ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 23 (Jun. 6, 2006), pp. 8786-8791 (6 pages) The telomere and centromere are two specialized structures of ...

Robertsonian chromosomes are large chromosomes that form when the long arm of a chromosome breaks and fuses with another chromosome. They are the most common type of chromosome rearrangement in humans ...

In about one out of every 800 people, two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. These are known as Robertsonian chromosomes. It's a mystery that has long stumped scientists. Now, ...

We investigated six Robertsonian translocations, including two cases of rob(13q14q), one of rob(14q21q), one of rob(13q22q), and two of rob(21q21q), by means of fluorescencein situ hybridization (FISH ...

The term uniparental disomy was originally used by Eric Engel [1] in 1980. Under normal circumstances humans have 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes, one of each homologous pair ...