In these cases, Down syndrome is caused by a translocation of chromosomes 15 and 21 (Figure 3), in which the long arms of two acrocentric chromosomes are translocated to produce a single long ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

The genetic cause for the most common type of hearing loss in children with Down syndrome has been identified in mice by ...

People with Down's syndrome have a characteristic appearance and may have differing levels of learning disability. Chromosome mutations can also occur in plants. In many crop plants, for example ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ...

When the CF mutations are identified in the parents ... a false-negative result and have a baby born with, for example, Down syndrome. Genetic testing for some conditions for which there are ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...

HHMI researchers identify a rare genetic mutation that tamps down immune response to influenza ... and only a few would end up hospitalized with an acute respiratory distress syndrome,” says ...