January 12, 2009 — The most common major risk factor associated with idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) is a microdeletion on human chromosome 15, according to a study published online ...

Genotyping at 15 polymorphic loci and one sex determination ... The presence of an X chromosome and the absence of a Y chromosome were observed in all tumors. Among 13 cases in which analysis ...

"Autism is not a simple genetic disease, caused by the presence or absence of a single ... a paternal effect on chromosome 7 and a maternal effect on chromosome 15. Genetic imprinting has recently ...

The enzyme Dna2 participates in DNA repair, but little is known about the consequences of its absence on chromosome instability. A study published in the journal Nature by researchers from several ...