Pre-malignant aneuploid cells grew more slowly and formed smaller tumors than comparable cells with
normal chromosome number, CSHL researchers found...
Pre-malignant aneuploid cells grew more slowly and formed smaller tumors than comparable cells with
normal chromosome number.»
This phenomenon almost never happened in sets of control cells that were pre-malignant but still had
a normal chromosome number.
Not exact matches
The embryos with a
normal number of
chromosomes are selected from the group for transfer.
An embryo that contains a
normal number of
chromosomes is a «euploid» embryo.
But the whiptails» egg cells first double their
chromosomes twice and then divide twice, leaving them with the
normal number of
chromosomes and rendering a sperm cell unnecessary.
Perhaps because it is
normal for human embryos to contain cells with the wrong
number of
chromosomes, which can cause them to self - destruct.
The culprit emerged as a gene, RCAN1, which in Down syndrome appears in three times the
number that would be found in
normal chromosomes.
The other marker is an aberrant pattern in the
chromosomes; the DNA shows a greater
number of abnormalities than
normal, including DNA that is missing or moved.
Those differences were due to a distinct genetic change called aneuploidy, or having more than the
normal number of DNA - packaging
chromosomes.