A global team of scientists has fully sequenced the Y chromosome, enhancing our understanding of male development, fertility, and genetically-linked diseases. The chromosome associated with…
The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium has fully sequenced the Y chromosome, uncovering 41 new genes and adding 30 million new bases to the human genome. This breakthrough…
New sequence reveals genomic factors in fertility, including sperm production. An international research team has generated the first truly complete sequence of a human Y chromosome,…
Geneticists at the University of Arizona have discovered an African American Y chromosome with lineage that diverged from previously known Y chromosomes about 338,000 ago,…
The male-sex determining Y chromosome is here to stay, having lost only one gene in the last 25 million years, a new study of human…