UCSF researchers found that brain cells age more quickly when they rely solely on the X chromosome inherited from a female's ...

"Given the fact that the X chromosome is enriched for brain-related genes, it became very important for us to know what roles it might be playing in brain aging," said Samira Abdulai-Saiku, Ph.D ...

Some of the hits, like the pairs on the q arms of chromosomes 10 and 14, lie in positions similar to those of ADAMs mapped by the NCBI (Fig. 8.1), but others, such as those on chromosomes 12 and Y ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. However, there is some evidence that the Y ...

Geneticist Marcus Rhoades introduced the concept of meiotic drive in 1942 based on observations of abnormal chromosome 10 (Ab10) in maize. Ab10 contains an extra DNA segment, termed a knob, that ...