A large-scale, international whole-genome analysis has now revealed for the first time that anorexia nervosa is associated with genetic anomalies on chromosome 12. This finding might lead to new, ...

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Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is a rare sporadic disorder characterised by tissue-limited mosaic tetrasomy of the short arm of chromosome 12. Clinically, affected individuals present with a ...

Chromosomes are tightly coiled structures in each of your cells that contain DNA, the code for all life. DNA is organized in segments on chromosomes called genes. Humans typically have 46 chromosomes ...