There are different types of disorders that can arise from abnormal chromosomes. The following list is not exhaustive, but it includes the chromosomal disorders that a fetus has the best chance of ...

Taken together, these banding techniques offer clinical cytogeneticists an arsenal of staining methods for diagnosing chromosomal abnormalities in patients. In order to maximize the diagnostic ...

CHD often occurs in association with other birth malformations, and only in a minority are disease-causing chromosomal abnormalities identified. We hypothesized that children with CHD and ...

Craddock and Owen's [24] review of the literature found reports of 7 cytogenetic surveys of samples of psychiatric patients, which included subjects with mood disorders, and 22 case reports of ...

With the advent of polymorphic DNA markers, linkage and association studies have become more useful methods for the genetic analysis of complex behavioral disorders. However, linkage studies of ...

On the rare occasion that errors do occur, cells with abnormal chromosome numbers are rapidly cleared. But cancer is different. Tumor cells are remarkably tolerant of chromosomal abnormalities, and ...

7 It therefore appeared reasonable to investigate systematically the chromosomes in a group of patients to determine if any abnormalities could be found in this condition. Constitutional aplastic ...

Chromosomal abnormalities are typically maternally transmitted and are found in 60% of pregnancy losses, making them the most common cause of pregnancy loss. However, there is a lack of detailed ...