Link Between Alcohol Dependence and Chromosome 5q13.2
Researchers have identified a strong genetic influence on the risk of developing alcohol dependence.
Excessive drinking is not only the third leading cause of preventable death in t...
Sex Chromosomes are Here for the Long Haul: Research
The way in which genes on sex-linked chromosomes are passed down generations and linked to fertility has been clarified by researchers who used a specific example of the W chromosome in fema...
New Findings on the Y Chromosome
A gene study has rubbished theories that men will eventually become extinct because the Y chromosome which determines maleness is shrinking.
The men-are-doomed scenario leapt to prominen...
Association Between Genetic Defect and Heart Malformation
Mutations in SHP-2 gene disrupts the shape of cardiac muscle cells and thereby result in heart malformation, shows research.
The study also shows that treatment with a drug that regul...
Abnormal Chromosome Has Prognostic Value in Rare Brain Tumor
A chromosomal abnormality has definitive prognostic and predictive value for managing the treatment of adult patients with a a rare type of brain tumor, a recent analysis of clinical trial r...
Cancer may be Caused by 'Pulverized' Chromosomes
Lone chromosomes stranded outside the nucleus where their fellow chromosomes reside are thought to be the Robinson Crusoes of the intracellular world.
Such castaways, each confined to it...