This could be reality, according to Bryan Sykes, an eminent professor of genetics at Oxford University and author of "Adam's Curse ... But unlike other chromosomes, the Y chromosome can't repair ...

Miga and Adam Phillippy, the co-leader of T2T and a senior author ... This means two healthy people’s Y chromosomes can look very different – for example, one person might have 40 copies of one gene, ...

The X and Y chromosomes are different from the rest ... organized the repeats are," said coauthor of one of the studies Adam Phillippy at the National Human Genome Research Institute, in a ...

A companion paper, also published in Nature, used new software built on this advance to sequence the Y chromosomes of more ... back together again," Adam Phillippy, lead author of one of the ...

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 ...

Sex chromosomes are chromosomes, or packages of DNA, that are found inside the nucleus of all of your cells. There are two different kinds: X and Y, which determine whether you’re biologically ...

The Y chromosome is the smallest of the human chromosomes ... because it has so many repetitive bits of DNA, says Adam Phillippy, a bioinformatics researcher at the U.S. National Human Genome ...

However, over half of the sequences within the Y chromosome, the smallest and most complicated of the 46 human chromosomes, remained unknown. Now, the same group of researchers has filled in the ...