That could result in the activation of a gene, a halt in gene activity or a sequence that codes for the creation of a ...

Researchers working in Iceland said Sunday that they had identified a genetic pattern that made some Europeans more fertile. The genetic pattern, known as an inversion, is a stretch of the DNA ...

Stanford Medicine scientists and colleagues discover bacterial genes can encode multiple versions of themselves, altering a core understanding of genetics.

Inverted genetic sequences can be very long, and exceed the length of typical sequencing reads, so they may not be put into a context that reveals the inversion. Scientists have now been able to ...

In zebra finches, sperm velocity and morphology and hence reproductive success strongly depend on a specific mutation (an inversion) on one of the sex chromosomes, called Z. This gene inversion ...

A study led by scientists at Stanford Medicine has shown that inversions, which cause a physical flip of a segment of DNA and change an organism’s genetic identity, can occur within a single gene, ...

Findings published in Cancer Research showed that a mouse model bred to overexpress Akt2 also overexpressed Dlx5, and together could increase cell growth and proliferation. Fox Chase Cancer Center ...

A refined physical map of chromosome 17q21.31 uncovered a 900-kb inversion polymorphism. Chromosomes with the inverted segment in different orientations represent two distinct lineages, H1 and H2 ...