When scientists and clinicians study an individual’s genome, they compare the individuals’ DNA to that of a standard reference to determine where there is variation. Until now, the Y chromosome ...

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans ... of Neanderthal DNA. These genetic traces come from almost every part of the Neanderthal genome—except the Y sex chromosome, which is ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

Scientists have finally filled the gaps in the sequence of the human Y chromosome, 20 years after the first draft of its DNA code was published. The work reveals a complete catalog of the genes in ...

While all human chromosomes contain repeats, more than 30 million letters of the Y chromosome — out of 62.5 million — are repetitive sequences, sometimes called satellite DNA or junk DNA.

Though small, the Y chromosome has intimidated many researchers because it has so many repetitive bits of DNA, says Adam Phillippy, a bioinformatics researcher at the U.S. National Human Genome ...

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"The Y chromosome is the smallest and the fastest-evolving chromosome in the human genome, and also the most repetitive, meaning that its DNA contains stretches of DNA repeated many times over ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases ... said the chromosome's evolution of palindromes — DNA sequences that read the same forward as backward ...