Reciprocal translocations are one of the most common structural chromosome abnormalities in our species and are present in one in 500 unselected newborns studied with a moderate level of banding. 1 ...

Translocations, in genetics, happen when chromosomes break and the pieces attach to other chromosomes. This mixing of genetic material has important results. The resultant chromosomes are lacking in ...

The term uniparental disomy was originally used by Eric Engel [1] in 1980. Under normal circumstances humans have 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes, one of each homologous pair ...