Iraqi Center for Genetics and Cancer Research, University of Al-Mustansiriyah delivered a lecture on the karyotype technique and its role in diagnosing the genetic diseases.
The lecture, in which a number of faculty members and postgraduates participated, aimed at introducing the karyotype technique and its contribution in detecting some of human genetic diseases via examining the chromosomes and indicating their number, shapes and sizes through a blood sample, biopsy of the spinal cord or tissues of the person and comparing them with the normal state.
The lecture reviewed the importance of the technique in detecting some of the common diseases such as Down’s syndrome, Edward’s syndrome, Turner’s syndrome and Klinefelter's syndrome as well as developmental deficiencies besides leukemia and lymphoma.
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