Hypermethylation of a gene, a common epigenetic modification (epimutation), is associated with transcriptional silencing and can predispose to cancer or other diseases. Robyn Ward and colleagues have ...

Study results regarding the clinical spectrum and inheritance pattern of GDF2 pathogenic variants suggest incomplete penetrance and/or variability of expressivity with a semi-dominant pattern of ...

Seven strains of the Central American A1 mating series of Didymium iridis were crossed in all possible combinations. Individual plasmodia were isolated and grown to a stage where total DNA could be ...

A preliminary analysis is presented of the mode of inheritance of patterns of male secondary sex coloration in several wild populations of Lebistes reticulatus in Trinidad. A high proportion of such ...

The field of genetics has evolved rapidly in recent years, however early understanding of inheritance patterns began much ...

Discover the fascinating world of Mendelian genetics, where the inheritance of traits from parents to offspring follows predictable patterns. This concept explains how genetic information is ...

The X – linked inheritance can have some interesting result depending on the X –chromosomes of mother or father that is Genetic disorders can be transmitted/affected through the somatic or sex ...

A Normal human being has 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. Each of the trillion of human cells have 23 pairs of chromosome in the nucleus. Twenty two pairs of chromosomes are called Somatic chromosomes and ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare, incurable condition that typically begins in early childhood and is marked by worsening muscle weakness. The disease results from changes in a gene ...