When Nettie Steven discovered the Y chromosome in 1905 while studying the mealworm Tenebrio molitor, she identified it as a sex-determining chromosome. As it turns out, the chromosome also has ...
What was once the final frontier of the human genome -- the Y chromosome -- has just been mapped out in its entirety. Scientists used advanced sequencing technologies to read out the full DNA sequence ...
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 ...
After over two decades, the human genome sequence is finally complete. The holdout? The Y chromosome. Although far smaller than the other 23 chromosomes, Y is a genetic contortionist, carrying ...
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 ...
What was once the final frontier of the human genome — the Y chromosome — has just been mapped out in its entirety. Led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a team of researchers ...