In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

The findings revealed that chromosome 2 is particularly prone to structural variations, with four out of seven detected aberrations occurring in this chromosome. Additionally, the researchers ...

Translocations involving human chromosomes are of great clinical interest ... regions that are affected by translocations. Figure 2 shows an example of a spectral karyotype prepared from acute ...

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

But it might also put us at risk for uniquely human brain disorders. The study appears in Nature. The research focused on parts of chromosomes known as human accelerated regions (HARs), which have ...