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Researchers discover link between DNA palindromes and disease
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Jul 14, 2008 |
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In the past 10 years, researchers in genome stability have observed that many kinds of cancers are associated with areas where human chromosomes break. More recently, scientists have discovered that slow or altered replication ...
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'Achilles' heel' in Y chromosome linked to sex disorders
Sep 03, 2009 |
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The unique mechanism behind the evolutionary survival of the human Y chromosome may also be responsible for a range of sex disorders, from failed sperm production to sex reversal to Turner Syndrome.
Biologists discover link between CGG repeats in DNA and neurological disorders
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Jan 11, 2009 |
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Researchers have long known that some repetitive DNA sequences can make human chromosomes "fragile," i.e. appearing constricted or even broken during cell divisions. Scientists at Tufts University have found that one such ...
Virus widely used in gene therapy research yields important clues to genomic instability
Jun 01, 2007 |
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Genomic instability—the rearrangement of chromosomes or an abnormal number of chromosomes—is a hallmark of many human cancers. Although the source of genomic instability has been established for many inherited human cancers, ...
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