Small plastic or metal bits at the end of shoelaces, known as aglets, prevent laces from unraveling and protect them from wear and tear. Similarly, chromosomes are capped by telomeres—specialized ...

IgA nephropathy has a complex hereditary pattern. You may not develop it unless you inherit multiple risk genes and also ...

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an eye condition that can be genetic. In this way, people usually need to inherit two copies of a genetic variation that causes RP, one coming from each parent. RP may ...

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 ...

See more details Toxoplasma gondii replicates through endodyogeny, an unconventional form of internal budding in which two daughter cells are assembled within a single mother cell. During this process ...

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

Understanding inheritance patterns in polyploid crops has long posed technical and financial challenges, particularly in species like tetraploid blueberry. This study introduces a cost-effective, ...

Researchers studied two lizard types and found that heat rewrites their breeding biology. Madagascar's Guibé's ground gecko ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) follows an X-linked inheritance pattern. The condition most often affects males, while females may be carriers of the genetic change that causes it. If you have DMD, ...