and cancer. Translocations are usually detected when a cytogeneticist examines a karyotype, which is an ordered arrangement of an individual's metaphase chromosomes. In standard karyotypes ...

Now, however, researchers from Japan have shown that polyploidy can be a double-edged sword when it comes to cancer and its treatment. In a study published this month in Cell Death Discovery ...

In other situations, normal microarray analysis in the presence of an abnormal karyotype ... the added advantage of the ability to identify polyploidy and long stretches of homozygosity that ...