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Arch Pathol Lab Med
November 2024
From the Departments of Urology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York(Zhao, Deng).
Context.—: The use of hormonal therapy and gender-affirming surgery in the transgender community has been rising during the last several years. Although it is generally safe, hormonal therapy's link to testicular cancer remains uncertain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe human fungal pathogen poses a significant burden on global health, causing high rates of mortality and antifungal drug resistance. is a heterozygous diploid organism that reproduces asexually. Structural variants (SVs) are an important source of genomic rearrangement, particularly in species that lack sexual recombination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomolecules
December 2023
Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka 560-0043, Osaka, Japan.
Centromeres play essential roles in the faithful segregation of chromosomes. CENP-A, the centromere-specific histone H3 variant, and heterochromatin characterized by di- or tri-methylation of histone H3 9th lysine (H3K9) are the hallmarks of centromere chromatin. Contrary to the epigenetic marks, DNA sequences underlying the centromere region of chromosomes are not well conserved through evolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Genet
December 2023
Department of Genetics, "Dr. José Eleuterio González" University Hospital of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Monterrey, México.
Turner syndrome (TS) is caused by the total or partial loss of the second sex chromosome; it occurs in 1 every 2,500-3,000 live births. The clinical phenotype is highly variable and includes short stature and gonadal dysgenesis. In 1959, the chromosomal origin of the syndrome was recognized; patients had 45 chromosomes with a single X chromosome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBalkan J Med Genet
June 2022
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed Premier University, Oujda, Morocco.
Turner Syndrome (TS) is a genetic disorder caused by total or partial loss of an X chromosome. The isochromosome X (i(X)) is a known variant of TS, however, double i(X) is a very rare variant, reported very few times in the literature. We report on a rare case of TS with double i(X).
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