A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

Human cells have two copies of each chromosome, and this balance is essential for genes to be expressed in the appropriate ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance.

We estimated the statistical significance of the gene inversions and gene losses at translocation boundaries by χ 2 tests. For the tests, the probabilities of inversions and of deletions at any random ...