The human body is a miracle of nature, and in this article, Insider Monkey brings you the list of 10 uncommon genetic mutations in humans. Genetic mutation is the alteration of DNA pattern whereby ...

Variations in the properties of arabica coffee, such as in taste, caffeine content and disease resistance, are determined by chromosome mutations, according to a recent study. But are these findings ...

Chris Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford Medicine, recently solved the riddle of why so many orange cats are male. In a groundbreaking study, Kaelin and his team discovered a unique mutation that ...

The word mutation conjures many images in the popular mind, virtually all of them negative. Mutations in the human genome cause crippling birth abnormalities and are the source of innumerable genetic ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a genetic mutation on the X chromosome of orange, calico and tortoiseshell ...

An international study has identified more than 50 genes on the X chromosome in which mutations may cause poor sperm production. Nearly half of all men with low or zero sperm count have no medical ...

Homozygous, or homozygosity, refers to the inheritance of genes from each biological parent. Inheriting faulty genes from both parents can cause a person to develop the associated condition. Genetic ...

These 10 most interesting and extremely rare genetic disorders might be some of the strangest disorders you never knew existed. A genetic disorder is a cause of DNA mutation and there are various ...

A woman had cancer 5 times before she turned 36, the first time when she was two. A study found she has never-before-seen mutations that were thought to be impossible to survive. It shows the ...

Figure 1: Escape from X-inactivation tumor-suppressor (EXITS) genes. To test the EXITS hypothesis, we performed an unbiased analysis of paired tumor–germline exome sequencing data from 4,126 patients ...

As mutation affects essentially every aspect of biology, the development of a unifying theory for mutation-rate evolution is highly desirable. There is much to be explained. For although the ...