An accepted theory that chromosomes are the material of inheritance, and that they are associated in paternal-maternal pairings; dervied from the collective work of Boveri, Sutton, and Morgan.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found previously undetected cancers in 48.6% of pregnant people who ...

The development of maternal egg cells is pivotal for survival—but also precarious. During meiosis, the DNA-containing chromosomes can easily be broken or lost, causing infertility, miscarriage ...

Microarray analysis identifies more chromosome abnormalities than traditional ... positive for a Down's syndrome risk and advanced maternal age. Currently, microarrays will not detect balanced ...

A new study published in Nature Genetics by the Lymphoid Development Group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences has ...

NIH study finds some abnormal results due to colorectal, breast, lung and pancreatic cancers.

The noninvasive tests typically include measurement of maternal serum markers which ... mother and the fetus and assigns them to specific chromosomes. The number of chromosome counts are then ...