What is Cytogenetic and its Importance?
The study of chromosomes, which are double strands of DNA and protein that contain most of the genetic information in a cell. Cytogenetic involves evaluate samples of tissue, blood, or bone marrow in a laboratory to look for changes in chromosomes, including broken, missing, rearranged chromosomes.
Cytogenetic technologists are laboratory expert who
study defects of chromosomes in cells, and their relationship to disease and
human development. These include mutation, fertility problems, and blood
dyscrasia. In some birth defects, such as down syndrome, cytogenetics revealed the nature
of the chromosomal defect: a "simple" trisomy.
Importance:
Cytogenetics plays a key role in the Identification of
chromosomal abnormalities associated with cancer, as well as the
characterization of new changes that allow more research and increase knowledge
about the genetic aspects of these diseases.
Cytogenetic diagnosis can be used to detect chromosome
abnormalities responsible for birth defects and developmental problems.
Chromosome abnormalities are observed in about four to eight percent of
children with congenital abnormality, as well as at least 13 percent of those with
congenital heart defects.
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