But is an untoward effect on the germline likely? Wilson has considered the efficiency of transduction within the gonads, the likelihood that such a transduction event involves a germ cell (as ...

Their study showed that DCIS patients with pathogenic variants in BRCA1/2 and PALB2 had a higher risk of developing invasive breast cancer than those without.

A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

Cancer is primarily a genetic disease that is clonal in nature. It usually starts when a single cell acquires a series ... can be passed on through the germ line (i.e., inherited from one's ...

The nucleus of a germline stem cell undergoes two divisions, firstly separating homologous chromosomes and secondly separating chromatids. Haploid gametes contain 23 single chromosomes.