Over a century ago, one part of our DNA got labelled the "sex chromosomes." Science journalist Molly Webster explains the consequences of that oversimplification. Sarah Richardson is a Professor of ...

Chromothripsis is a phenomenon by which tens to thousands of chromosomal rearrangements occur, with the available evidence indicating that chromothripsis can be generated by a single catastrophic ...

Autosomal inheritance is when a parent passes down a condition to a child via autosomes, a type of chromosome. In autosomal inheritance, a copy of a faulty gene from one parent can cause a condition ...