Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

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

Researchers from Khalifa University, Saudi Arabia, working with regional and international collaborators, have examined Yemeni DNA to reveal how migrations from the Levant, Arabia, and East Africa ...

A team of researchers have generated the first complete chromosome ... DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. The researchers compared the sequences of the ape chromosomes to the human ...

However, there's one part of our genome that lacks any Neanderthal DNA: the Y chromosome. But why? You may like 'Mystery population' of human ancestors gave us 20% of our genes and may have ...

Together, more than 100 researchers from across the world have, for the first time, fully sequenced the male sex chromosome—the final mysterious piece of the human ... the DNA of the Y ...

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.

The human Y chromosome ... also accumulated an enormous amount of repetitive, seemingly junk DNA. Compared to the X, the Y chromosome also carries far fewer protein-coding genes.

The Y is the last human chromosome to have been sequenced end-to-end, or T2T (telomere-to-telomere). Even with long-read technology, assembling the DNA bits was often ambiguous, and researchers ...