These mutations may not have obvious health effects ... in The American Journal of Human Genetics attempts to better quantify the phenomenon of mosaicism. The authors used extra-sensitive molecular ...

Every human being is a vast mosaic of cells that are mostly identical ... of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester. These mutations—whether in blood, skin or brain—rack up even ...

Could two pieces of a stone mosaic ever be identical? Of course, the answer is no--and each stone’s variation subtly contributes value to the finished work. Why should your cells be any different?

Although this disorder is inherited as an autosomal-dominant trait, the pedigree is more consistent with either autosomal-recessive inheritance or germ-line mosaicism for a mutation in one of the ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with ...

Yale researchers are sifting through a mosaic of cells in a living ... Most biological organisms, including humans, accumulate cancer-causing mutations in their tissues. Many of these mutated ...

but it is known that Neanderthals also had a similar genetic mutation, suggesting that this occurred in the ancestors of the human lineage. However, there is some disagreement about the findings ...

The possibility has been raised that the complex language ability unique to humans emerged due to a specific genetic mutation. Although extinct primitive humans had similar anatomical structures ...