More information: Fengju Chen et al, Germline structural variation globally impacts the cancer transcriptome including disease-relevant genes, Cell Reports Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.

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.