Karyotyping

Limitations of Karyotyping- What can’t be detected?

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“Karyotyping is a technique based on cell culture; employed to detect chromosomal alterations but can’t detect variations at the DNA level.”  Karyotyping is a very traditional, manual and primitive technique, employed in recent times too for the detection of various genetic anomalies. Genetic problems/diseases or anomalies are arisen due to mutations/alterations or variations in either …

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In which conditions a Karyotyping or a Karyotype Test is preferred?

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Karyotyping is a type of genetic test prescribed during the special pregnancy cases to evaluate chromosomes.  A type of genetic test- karyotyping is prescribed during the pregnancy and some cases of having a history of genetic abnormalities.  A karyotyping, popularly known as a karyotype test is usually employed to evaluate chromosomal abnormalities. Unfortunately not so …

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Comparison Between Karyotyping and Microarray

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A karyotyping is a conventional cytogenetic technique that visualizes the chromosomes whilst the microarray is a molecular cytogenetic technique that analyses the chromosomes. The cytogenetic techniques rely on the study of chromosomes either structure or numbers. Changes in any of the properties of chromosomes create phenotypic variation.  For instance, we humans have 23 pairs of …

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