All mammals have basically the same set of genes, yet there are obviously some significant differences that distinguish the various species. Recent research suggests that one such difference involves ...

Experience of seven Spanish centres with echoendoscopically implanted 32P microparticles associated with chemotherapy in locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract ...

Tandem repeats are repeated sections of a DNA strand that make up about seven per cent of the human genome. The likelihood of those tandem repeats causing errors in gene function increases each time ...

Structural variants and so-called tandem repeats are individual differences in the human genome. They are increasingly linked to diseases, but analyzing and interpreting them poses challenges for ...

Researchers have built the first genetic reference map for tandem repeat expansions, a critical tool for congenital disease research. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (CA, USA) have ...

For decades, scientists have known that, despite its name, "junk DNA" in fact plays a critical role: While the coding genes provide blueprints for building proteins, which direct most of the body's ...

Over 40 tandem repeats undergo expansion events that lead to neurological disease. This number is likely an underestimate as many repeats are difficult to amplify using existing short read sequencing ...