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Cytologists had been studying chromosome behavior since the late 19th century. Why did it take until 1956 to figure out the correct human chromosome number, thanks to Joe Hin Tjio and Albert Levan?

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

At the time, cytological markers were not available for human chromosomes, so Boveri was not able to identify specific chromosomal changes in tumors. Today, we know that Boveri's insights were ...

But it might also put us at risk for uniquely human brain disorders. The study appears in Nature. The research focused on parts of chromosomes known as human accelerated regions (HARs), which have ...