A new paper published in Nature on June 4 shines light on how an enigmatic part of male aging—the loss of Y chromosomes—is ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona have unveiled that coordinated Y chromosome loss in both cancer cells and immune ...

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A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how ...

A University of Arizona study has found that men who lose the Y chromosome in their blood cells may respond less effectively ...

Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.

That genetic traces of the original population disappear completely is unusual, especially in South America,” said geneticist ...

Researchers from Khalifa University, Saudi Arabia, working with regional and international collaborators, have examined Yemeni DNA to reveal how migrations from the Levant, Arabia, and East Africa ...

A team of researchers have generated the first complete chromosome ... DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. The researchers compared the sequences of the ape chromosomes to the human ...

However, there's one part of our genome that lacks any Neanderthal DNA: the Y chromosome. But why? You may like 'Mystery population' of human ancestors gave us 20% of our genes and may have ...

Together, more than 100 researchers from across the world have, for the first time, fully sequenced the male sex chromosome—the final mysterious piece of the human ... the DNA of the Y ...

While all human chromosomes contain repeats, more than 30 million letters of the Y chromosome — out of 62.5 million — are repetitive sequences, sometimes called satellite DNA or junk DNA.