Abstract
Chromosomes are generally thread-like structures present in the nucleus of each living cells. There are twenty three pairs of chromosome in human beings. The additional in chromosome number or missing chromosome will cause chromosome abnormality i.e. chromosome anomaly in human beings. This is mainly occurring due to accident or error while sperm or egg progress in growing. The abnormality in chromosome will cause birth defects, genetic disorders and cancer to the human beings. The twenty three pairs of chromosome can be classified into twenty four different classes by using karyotyping process. In this paper, the main objective is to give idea about how to diagnose the genetic disorder. The genetic disorder can lead to cancer in human. It may happen due to touching or overlapped chromosomes in human beings. In order to overcome these genetic disorders and cancer in human, the touching and overlapped chromosomes were separated. This separation process will be easier to undergo karyotyping analysis and to be handled by a cytogeneticist.
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The authors wish to thank Ms. Nirmala Madian working as an Assistant Professor and Phd research scholar in K.S.R College of Technology and Dr. Suresh, Director, Birth Registry of India for providing the G-band chromosome images for the work.
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Balaji, V.S., Vidhya, S. (2015). Separation of Touching and Overlapped Human Chromosome Images. In: Gupta, S., Bag, S., Ganguly, K., Sarkar, I., Biswas, P. (eds) Advancements of Medical Electronics. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2256-9_6
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