Having inherited two different alleles (alternate versions of a gene or DNA sequence), one from each parent. When referring to genetic disorders, a heterozygote is usually someone who has one disease and one non-disease allele.
Menopause occurs an average of nine years earlier in women with two copies of a variant of the CCDC201 gene...
Research has found that having two copies of a gene variant known to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, may actually cause the disease...
A technique commonly used to amplify minute quantities of DNA to allow genetic testing of early human embryos has been shown to be error-prone. Potentially harmful unintended mutations in genome-edited embryos were also found...
A link between inflammation and specific genetic mutations in Parkinson's patients has been established according to a new study...
Mutations in the M1AP gene have been identified by researchers as a major trigger for male infertility...
Inheriting two copies of a chromosome from a single parent is more common than previously thought, according to a new study...
A Russian scientist who announced his intention to create genome-edited babies last month, has now revealed details of his plan...
For the first time, scientists from Stanford University, California, have combined CRISPR genome editing with a stem cell system to model how a genetic mutation might affect heart disease risk...
The Born in Bradford study, which began in 2007, has recorded data prospectively from 12,000 mothers, 4000 fathers and their 14,000 children born in Bradford General Hospital...
Knocking out a single gene in adult female fish causes them to produce sperm inside their ovaries, study results show...
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