The term "karyotype" refers to the chromosomal pattern inside the nucleus of an animal cell (eukaryote), as well as to describes the set of chromosomes in a species or in an individual organism.

That idea has led him to propose that cancers have actually evolved new chromosomal karyotypes that qualify them as ... Is carcinogenesis a form of speciation? Cell Cycle, 2011; 10 (13): 2100 ...

Your doctor may suggest that you get a karyotype test, based on the results of a pregnancy screening test. Find out what the test looks for and when it’s done.

Aneuploidy is defined as an abnormal karyotype that is not a multiple of the haploid complement. Chromosome mis-segregation causes DNA damage. Micronuclei form during chromosome mis-segregation ...

Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), the most common form of acute leukemia in adults, is a heterogeneous group of diseases that are curable in about 30 percent of cases.

In people with normal karyotype CML, the chromosomes appear normal in shape, size, and structure. That is, all 23 pairs of chromosomes look just like healthy chromosomes found in people without CML.

Photograph of a karyotype - the collection of chromosomes within each cell of an organism - from a male mouse engineered by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers to model Down syndrome in a human.

Karyotype analysis yielded results in 45 of the 67 stillbirths (67.2%), of which 13 (28.9%) were abnormal. Microarray analysis was successful in 60 of the 67 stillbirths ...