as well as skeletal abnormalities. Turner syndrome can also result in miscarriage or stillbirth. Klinefelter syndrome, also known as XXY syndrome, is the result of an extra X chromosome in people ...

The X and Y chromosomes ... Created with Sketch. This rare sex chromosome abnormality, also referred to as Jacob’s syndrome, occurs when a male infant is born with an extra Y chromosome.

Monosomy X accounted for < 10% of all abnormalities ... Because advanced maternal age is associated with an increased risk of fetal chromosome abnormalities, the ages of the women in the two ...

No abnormality of chromosome number was present in any of ... and she was considered to be a triple-X female. Her husband had 1 endoreduplication, and of 79 cells examined, 2 per cent showed ...

UCSF researchers found that brain cells age more quickly when they rely solely on the X chromosome inherited from a female's ...

This type is very rare and often occurs due to an absent part of the X chromosome. Other Turner syndrome abnormalities include: X chromosome abnormalities. These can happen when your cells have ...

X-linked dominant Inheritance is rare ... Chromosomal (cytogenetic) abnormalities Alterations of chromosomes that can be seen under a microscope Aneuploidy Loss of 1 of a pair of chromosomes ...

Women have longer lifespans but are at a higher risk of developing some brain disorders. Role of X chromosomes in brain function and ageing Humans have two sex chromosomes—females carry two X ...

In the 1930s, Muller was surprised to note that telomeres were strangely resistant to mutagenic X-rays. Why are the ... several fundamental properties of chromosome biology; specifically, she ...

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) say they have now found that when the brain cells of female mice express only a maternal X chromosome, the animals’ memory and ...

A study conducted by a research team at the Crick Institute identified important genes on the Y chromosome that regulate ...

A number of factors contribute to the complexity of the genetics ... disorders become serious obstacles, because the simple genetic models--autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, X-linked ...