The human brain begins to assemble itself shortly after conception as a growing number of brain cells connect to create circuits across the brain. Genes provide the blueprint for construction, but ...

Could diagnosing rare genetic disorders one day be as simple as snapping a picture with a smartphone? That’s what a new study suggests. Researchers with the National Institutes of Health’s National ...

With her husband detained by ICE and sent to Washington state, a Troy mother struggles to care for a baby with DiGeorge ...

Purpose: Patients with microdeletion of chromosome 22q11.2 (del22q11) were studied, in order to evaluate auxological parameters and to correlate growth patterns with the presence of main clinical ...

On October 8, the FDA approved a regenerative medicine based on Markert's pioneering work as the only therapy for congenital athymia, a grouping of rare diseases such as complete DiGeorge Syndrome ...

DiGeorge syndrome (DGS; also known as Velo-cardio-facial syndrome) is associated with hemizygous deletion of a region of human chromosome 22q11, causing a range of abnormalities including ...

Down syndrome is an easily recognized, well-known genetic disorder. But there is another genetic disorder that even more babies are born with and it is rarely talked about. It is called 22q11.2 ...