What changes do scientists look for in a karyotype when diagnosing diseases and disorders? The process of generating a karyotype begins with the short-term culture of cells derived from a specimen.

In another case, a 22-year-old female patient was born without a womb which was attributed to the abnormal chromosomal karyotype. In another case an abnormal chromosomal karyotype caused the low ...

These can be diagnosed by cytogenetic study (karyotype analysis) of virtually any tissue type. Numerical chromosomal abnormalities (aneuploidies) -- the presence of an extra chromosome (trisomy ...

Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 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 ...

Translocations generate novel chromosomes, but are often linked to disorders like infertility ... detected when a cytogeneticist examines a karyotype, which is an ordered arrangement of an ...