often resulting in a frameshift Cystic fibrosis Chromosomal mutation Inversion One region of a chromosome is flipped and reinserted Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome Deletion A region of a chromosome is ...

As opposed to gene-level mutations, mutations that alter longer stretches of DNA (ranging from multiple genes up to entire chromosomes) are called chromosomal mutations. These mutations often have ...

You’ve likely heard people mention that they have inherited certain health conditions from their family. These are known as ...

An advanced genomic analysis of a multigenerational family is providing new knowledge about genetic mutations and their ...

This is a bottleneck for the exploitation of induced crop mutations that are recessive (in genetics, when one characteristic of a gene is not expressed because a more dominant one is displayed). One ...

"Our findings suggest chromosomal rearrangements might be more widespread and more complex than we previously thought." He says these mutations, despite being large, are easy to miss using ...

They are particularly interested in large chromosomal rearrangements (or, structural mutations) and uncovering how those contribute to the spectrum of normal human variation across global populations ...

An 11-year-old Navarre girl with a rare health condition just got some great news.WEAR News reported earlier this week ...