Somatic mosaicism is the accumulation of mutations in DNA sequence or copy number in cellular genomes after fertilization. It is a known cause of neurological disorders including developmental brain ...

NA denotes not applicable, and ND not detected. Febrile seizures plus are febrile seizures that occur after the age when these seizures usually occur (3 months to 6 years) or when there are concurrent ...

There are several predictors of IVF success. [2] Female age is probably the most important among them. With age, ovarian reserve declines, as does oocyte quality. As a result, fewer embryos are ...

"This evaluation provides information regarding the origin of mosaicism and, importantly, will assist clinicians regarding potential patient evolution and consequently, to provide better and more ...

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), have been able to examine a rare disease in which the maternal and paternal ...

Somatic chromosomal mosaicism is defined as the presence of two or more chromosomally distinct cell lines and represents a challenging task not only to detect but also to interpret. Owing to various ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only 14.8% of patients with pigmentary mosaicism exhibited neurological abnormalities. Of 10 patients with a ...

In most people, every cell in their body contains the same genetic information. However, sometimes people can have two or more genetically different sets of cells. This usually happens during fetal ...

Researchers found that approximately one in 40 human bone marrow cells carry massive chromosomal alterations without causing any apparent disease or abnormality. Even so-called normal cells carry all ...

Our DNA makes us who we are, yet our genetic code is not the same from cell to cell. Errors during replication and cell division can cause sequences to shift or pieces to expand or get lost. Several ...

New evidence shows that the genetic makeup of the embryo may cause the appearance of tumors in adult life. These results bear out the growing theory that some tumors may have an extremely early origin ...