Translocations are usually detected when a cytogeneticist examines a karyotype, which is an ordered arrangement of an individual's metaphase chromosomes. In standard karyotypes, chromosomes that ...

Akira Kakizuka (The Salk Institute, La Jolla, Calif.): "Our paper described the genes located at each of the breakpoints of the t(15;17) translocation associated with human acute promyelocytic ...

Of 102 infants having echocardiography, 49 (48%) had heart defects; 47 of these had trisomy 21 and 2 had unbalanced translocation karyotypes. Of the 53 (52%) who did not have heart defects ...