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 ...

Scientists now know that evasion was thanks to an inversion recoding the bacterium in a way that allowed it to escape the animals’ immunity. Microbiologists have since found inversions occurring in ...

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 ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT ...