Brenden Adams, a 13-year-old from Ellensburg, Wash., is already 7-feet, 3-inches tall, the Seattle Times reported Monday. His bones, teeth and organs are growing at an abnormal pace because of an ...

Paracentric inversions (PAIs) are structural chromosomal rearrangements generally considered to be harmless. To date, only a few studies have been performed concerning the meiotic segregation of these ...

Chromosomal inversion occur when a chromosome breaks and is rearranged and a segment is reversed from end to end. This change can play a role in genomic evolution. A recent study suggests that the ...

The “goal” of each sperm is fertilizing the ovum, which implies winning a fierce race through the long female reproductive tract. The competitors in this race are the “sibling” sperm from the same ...

Balanced chromosome aberrations in leukemias following chemotherapy with DNA-topoisomerase II inhibitors. An inv(16)(p13q22) was observed in only two of 180 cases of t-MDS and t-AML in Copenhagen and ...

Chromosomal rearrangements, such as chromosome segment inversions, may affect the epigenetic landscape as well as gene expression. Different kinds of chromosome segment inversions have been found in ...