To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

When the Y chromosome was discovered about 15 years later, researchers just continued on with ... Y chromosome inheritance is very unique. All other human chromosomes, including the X chromosome, ...

After 3 miscarraiges, my sister went for genetic testing. It was found that she had an 'extra' piece of dna attached to Chromosome 15. Could this be the reason for the miscarraiges - she carries fine ...

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes poor feeding in infancy but later triggers insatiable hunger.

Each human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes ... imprinted genes and an under-expression of maternal ones on chromosome 15. Children with this genetic disorder tend to be more hyperactive ...

Until now, the Y chromosome portion of the human genome has contained large gaps which made it difficult to understand variation and associated disease. The structure of the Y chromosome has been ...

The first attempt to determine the building blocks of our genetic code took place 20 years ago, but there were still significant gaps left in the sequences of all 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

When cancer cells in male patients and immune cells in their tumors both lose the Y chromosome, those patients tend to ...

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

The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team of more than 100 researchers around the world, including ...