Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that ...

The Y chromosome is among the smallest in the human body and carries the fewest genes. Researchers are paying renewed attention to its role in cancer—specifically, what happens when it vanishes.

The biological necessity of the Y chromosome is undergoing a fundamental reassessment as evidence confirms its disappearance ...

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years later in a commentary, "is running out of time." The male-determining sex ...

The phenomenon now known as mosaic loss of chromosome Y, or mLOY, first emerged when researchers noticed that some men’s blood cells showed a missing Y in standard genomic data. A Primary study on ...

Newly generated, complete genomes for the sex chromosomes of six primate species — produced by an international collaboration led by researchers at Penn State and the National Human Genome Research ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

Analysing the births of a Utah family over seven generations has revealed that their disproportionate number of boys could be caused by a selfish Y chromosome ...