Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive degeneration of the retina with bone spicule-like pigment deposits, is one of the most frequent hereditary causes of blindness. The disorder is genetically ...

In hopes of heading off transplantation rejection before it can even get started, scientists based at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Toronto have been mapping the molecular ...

(A) Recombination mapping: the coloured horizontal bars indicate introgressed chromosomes. The vertical orange bar marks the position of the gene that is responsible for hybrid sterility (e.g., the ...

Positional cloning is a genetic mapping technique used to pinpoint the location of specific traits of interest, such as disease-causing genes or mutations, within the genome. Very simply, this ...