Our assembly resolves the sequence of five previously long-standing gaps, including a 2.08 Mbp centromeric α-satellite array, a 644 kbp β-defensin copy number polymorphism important for disease risk, ...

For decades, the Y chromosome — one of the two human sex chromosomes — has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure. Now, this elusive ...

When the Y chromosome was discovered about 15 years later, researchers just continued on with the alphabet. All chromosomes have roughly the same shape, but the Y chromosome is smaller in size — about ...

The propositus (Fig. 1 A and B, IV-2) was a male infant (W.G.H. 86 389) born to 16-year-old, apparently normal parents after a 35-week, uneventful gestation.The birth weight was 2.7 kg. (6 pounds ...

The sequences ranged from 45.2 million to 84.9 million base pairs in length, and taken together, they show that the Y chromosome has substantially diversified in its size and structure over this time.

Researchers mapped Y chromosome loss across thousands of individual cells from human cancers, with disturbing results.

A fire near Prater Way in the 2500 block of D Street in Sparks burned a debris pile and part of a structure Monday, June 2, sending two people to the hospital, authorities said. About 5:30 p.m ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have created the first chromosome-level ...

The Y chromosome in primates — including humans — is evolving much more rapidly than the X chromosome, new research on six primate species suggests. For instance, humans and chimpanzees share ...

Silent X chromosome awakens with age: New explanation for sex differences in age-related diseases. ... It folds into a compact structure known as the Barr body and can no longer be read.

Changes in chromosome structure in any individual cell are probably of no importance. That one cell won't function well and might die soon. Translocations are important when they occur in a large ...