Rare diseases affect 30 million people in the USA and more than 300–400 million
worldwide, often causing chronic illness, disability, and premature death. Traditional …

Tandem repeat (TR) expansion is the underlying cause of over 40 neurological disorders.
Long-read sequencing offers an exciting avenue over conventional technologies for …

Background Throughout history, the field of cytogenetics has witnessed significant changes
due to the constant evolution of technologies used to assess chromosome number and …

Usually, molecular diagnosis of spinocerebellar ataxia is based on a step-by-step approach
with targeted sizing of four repeat expansions accounting for most dominant cases, then …

Approximately half of the human genome includes repetitive sequences, and these DNA
sequences (as well as their transcribed repetitive RNA and translated amino-acid repeat …

The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål, BPH) is one of the most devastating insect
pests of rice (Oryza sativa L.), but BPH populations have varying degrees of virulence to rice …