Older mothers face a well - established risk of producing eggs
with chromosome abnormalities, but it is less clear how...
Before transfer to the uterus, embryos can be screened to rule out
any with chromosome abnormalities, which can cause miscarriage and implantation failure, as well as conditions such as Down's syndrome.
Not exact matches
Certain genetic
abnormalities are present; some boys are born
with an abnormal Y
chromosome and they'll never produce normal sperm; even though they're normal males, they just don't have normal sperm production.
«The most common cause of miscarriage is chromosomal
abnormality — meaning that something is not correct
with the baby's
chromosomes.
About 4 percent of couples
with recurrent miscarriages have
chromosome abnormalities in one or both parents that can recur in future pregnancies, so some physicians suggest parental karyotype tests as a part of investigating the cause.
As
with humans, he says, the oocytes of C. elegans also show an increase in
chromosome abnormalities with aging.
27 percent reduction in conotruncal defects, or severe heart outflow tract
abnormalities; 23 percent reduction in coarctation of the aorta — a narrowing of the major artery (the aorta) that carries blood to the body; 15 percent reduction in atrial and ventricular septal defects — holes in the wall separating heart chambers; however, no changes were seen
with regard to chromosomally associated defects —
abnormality in the number of an infant's
chromosomes.
Recombination ensures that each gamete ends up
with a unique copy of every
chromosome, but when the process goes awry, it can result in chromosomal
abnormalities.
Bearden's earlier research had focused on children
with abnormalities caused by missing sections of genetic material on
chromosome 22, in a location known as 22q11.2.
It is approved for treating low - risk, transfusion - dependent myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients
with an
abnormality of
chromosome 5q.
«In fact, abnormal cells
with numerical and / or structural anomalies of
chromosomes have been observed in as many as 80 - 90 % of human early stage embryos following in vitro fertilization,» says Professor Thierry Voet from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, and the University of Leuven, Belgium, another senior author of this paper, «and CSV tests may expose some degree of these
abnormalities.»
Several targeted drugs (e.g., imatinib [Gleevec ®], dasatinib [Sprycel ®]-RRB- are effective for treating CML because they attack cells
with the Philadelphia
chromosome, the genetic
abnormality that is the hallmark of this type of leukemia.
Cytogenetic identification of
chromosome abnormalities has become essential for the clinical management of patients
with leukemia and is currently used to help categorizing patients into risk groups.
Interview
with ASHG Member Dr. Mark Daly About His Research On Autism and
Chromosome Abnormalities NBC Nightly News
with Brian Williams - Jan 9, 2008
Telomeres protect a cell's
chromosomes from fusing
with each other or rearranging —
abnormalities which can lead to cancer — and so cells are normally destroyed when their telomeres are consumed.
The abstract concept that human cells contain
chromosomes made of genes was made more concrete through these karyotypes and the photos of children
with chromosomal
abnormalities.
It derives from pericytes associated
with blood vessels and, at least in some cases, involves a
chromosome abnormality (usually an extra or an absent
chromosome).