"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The 23 rd chromosome base pair contains what are known as our sex chromosomes. For most females, this ...

The answer – if you didn’t guess from the picture, above – is the Y chromosome. This is part of human DNA that makes foetuses ...

We can now analyse all the sequences that might underlie an individual’s hereditary traits and diseases. Furthermore, we have sequenced 24–45% of the previously unknown Y-chromosomal DNA in apes.

Micronuclei and Y Chromosome Loss: The formation of micronuclei, small cellular structures containing chromosomes or fragments, plays a critical role in the disintegration of the Y chromosome, linking ...

U of A Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Dr. Dan Theodorescu plans to study loss of Y chromosome biology and investigate ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have taken a big step in solving the mystery around why animals evolve sex chromosomes. It had long been proposed that sex chromosomes ...

This July, the National Human Genome Research Institute, an institute of the US National Institutes of Health, co-organized a 2-day virtual symposium titled Exploring the Many Dimensions of Sex and ...

In 2019, a group of researchers in Japan published a study that promised the potential to revolutionize sex selection for ...

The evolution of sex chromosomes influences reproductive biology and genome evolution across species. In Drosophila pseudoobscura, the Y chromosome has a distinct origin compared to Drosophila ...