The typical human cell has 23 sets of chromosomes, including one set of chromosomes. The options, XY and XX, are depicted at bottom right. The trailblazing findings draw a clear connection between the ...

Two years ago, when an international team of scientists announced it had finally sequenced and assembled the first fully complete human genome, including previously unmappable regions, Melissa Wilson ...

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 ...

Scientists have decoded the Y chromosome in full for the first time. In a new article published Aug. 23 in Nature, scientists with the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium—a group of researchers ...

The Y chromosome is the smallest chromosome, and holds the least amount of genes, but scientists are still learning about all of its biological functions. Research has shown that many men start to ...

Every human cell has a pair of chromosomes that give your body a blueprint for how to grow and develop starting as a single cell inside a uterus. But in a recent study from the Cedars-Sinai cancer ...

That changed in 2014, when Swedish scientists showed that Y loss in blood cells correlates with how long men live – those who have Y loss in some of their cells die five years sooner. Many further ...

An international team of researchers has successfully completed the sequencing of the Y chromosome. Understanding the male sex chromosome also revealed 41 additional protein-coding genes. The find ...

The Y chromosome is a shy thing, no matter that it plays a critical role in sex determination and male fertility. For example, the Y chromosome has hidden valuable clues to its ancestry in ...

New analysis of the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y chromosomes from all living species of the great ape family helps to clarify our understanding of how this enigmatic chromosome evolved. New ...

Females and males differ in many ways and yet they share the same genome. The only exception is the male Y chromosome. Using beetles as a study system, new research shows that despite of the Y ...