I married a tall woman out of love, partly from genetic ambition. I figured we’d gift our kids a vertical advantage. It turns ...

Sometimes, the translocation happens later, after conception. There will be two populations of cells, one with normal chromosomes and one with the translocation. This is known as mosaicism.

Human cells typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes; extra chromosomes are an anomaly known as aneuploidy. “If you look at normal skin or normal lung tissue, for example, 99.9% of the cells will have ...

The apparently normal carriers of the translocation chromosome have had a somatic chromosome number of 45. The purpose of the present communication is to report 2 more families in which mongolism ...

Human cells typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes; extra chromosomes are an anomaly known as aneuploidy. If you look at normal skin or normal lung tissue, for example, 99.9% of the cells will ...

The rest of the autosomes and the sex-chromosome complement were normal. Figure 4 Karyotype of the Proband (Arrow Indicates a Translocation Chromosome). Karyotype analysis on the phenotypically ...