Common Chromosomal Disorders have an incidence of 1 in 200 live births. This is a worldwide incidence. All obstetrics and genetic societies in the world recommend screening pregnant women for these ...

It may sound like code language or a password. But no, 22q11.2 is the name of one of the most common chromosomal disorders after Down syndrome. What is 22q11.2? It's caused by a loss or deletion of a ...

Chromosomal copy-number variations (CNVs) are a class of genetic variants highly implicated in the aetiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disabilities (ID), schizophrenia ...

It is known that newborns with a variety of chromosomal disorders are subnormal in weight for gestational age at birth but their growth disturbance has received little attention, major consideration ...

Chromosomal abnormalities can include two basic categories: numerical or structural. A structural abnormality can include an alteration to the structure of the chromosome, as the name suggests.

Rare genetic disorders affect more than 300 million people worldwide, with children making up 70% of those impacted, according to EURORDIS. These conditions often go undiagnosed for years due to ...

The study, published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India, showed that a chromosomal abnormality detected by Non-invasive Prenatal Screening Test (NIPT) was much more likely to be true ...

As more couples in India turn to assisted reproduction to build families, the country's leading fertility and embryology ...

The cells in our body are constantly fighting off the threat of cancer by repairing damaged DNA. In a new study, scientists investigate the structure of an elusive protein complex that plays a key ...

An innovative method for accurately determining chromosome counts in ancient genomes has been produced from a collaboration between scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, the University of Oxford, ...