A genetic mutation and evolutionary trick fuels horses' exceptional athleticism, findings that may advance scientific ...

Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle weakness to stroke-like episodes.

or is it driven by one or a few mutations that cause major changes in traits. Chromosomal rearrangements where large chunks of chromosomes are inverted, moved, deleted or duplicated, provide a ...

Dr Whiffin said her team had used a large UK genetics dataset ... diseases team to screen their patient database for the RNU4-2 mutation. "Within 20 minutes he was able to come back and say ...

Causes: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is caused by mutations in a gene called HPRT1 ... The HPRT1 gene is found on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes in humans; females typically have ...