translocation

…be transferred to another (translocation), which has no effect on the person in which it occurs but generally causes a deletion or duplication syndrome in his or her children. Changes in chromosome number occur during sperm or egg formation or in the early development of the embryo. In the…

…the autosomes also occur, including translocations of large pieces of chromosomes as well as smaller deletions, insertions, or rearrangements. Even a small deletion or addition of autosomal material—too small to be seen by normal karyotyping methods—can produce serious malformations and intellectual disability.

…segment is lost; or by translocation, when a segment changes from one location to another in the same or a different chromosome. These are the processes by which chromosomes evolve. Inversions, translocations, fusions, and fissions do not change the amount of DNA. The importance of these mutations in evolution is…

If a chromosome break occurs in each of two nonhomologous chromosomes and the two breaks rejoin in a new arrangement, the new segment is called a translocation. A cell bearing a heterozygous translocation has a full set of genes and will be viable unless…

…are numerical abnormalities and include translocations of large pieces of chromosomes, as well as smaller deletions, insertions, or rearrangements. Indeed, about 5 percent of all cases of Down syndrome result not from classic trisomy 21 but from the presence of excess chromosome 21 material attached to the end of another…

…occurs by the process of translocation, in which a segment of the chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome. If the dislocated chromosome contains a proto-oncogene, it may be removed from its regulatory controls and be continuously produced. The excess production of protein molecules disrupts the cellular process normally…

…to one mechanism, called chromosomal translocation, part of one chromosome is severed from its normal position and reattached (translocated) onto another chromosome. If a proto-oncogene appears on the piece of the chromosome that is moved, it may be separated from the region that normally regulates it. In this manner the…

Chromosomal translocation has been linked to several types of human leukemias and lymphomas and, through comprehensive sequencing studies of the genomes of cancers, to epithelial tumors such as prostate cancer. Through chromosomal translocation one segment of a chromosome breaks off and is joined…

…versa in a process termed translocation. A germ cell carrying such a chromosome structural change may be capable of producing a zygote that can develop into an adult individual, but the germ cells produced by the resulting individual may include many that lack the normal chromosome complement and so yield…