Today, most karyotypes are stained with Giemsa dye ... with the exceptions of chromosomes 21 and 22, the former actually being the smallest autosome. The sex chromosomes are generally placed ...

Traits as diverse as the color of a person's eyes and the scent of a rose are determined by the information contained in DNA. Learn how this information is coded by strings of molecules called ...

These can be diagnosed by cytogenetic study (karyotype analysis ... The acrocentric chromosomes are 13, 14, 24, 15, 21, and 22. In a balanced structural chromosomal anomaly the amount of ...

2013;13(6):601-611. In other situations, normal microarray analysis in the presence of an abnormal karyotype, such as marker chromosomes, is reassuring, as it indicates that the marker is lacking ...