as well as missing copies of chromosome 16. The most frequent chromosome changes in these healthy women were extra copies in chromosome 1, and losses of chromosomes 16, 10 and 22, which scientists ...

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 ...

Normally, one pair of each of the two α-globin genes, α1 and α2, resides on each copy of chromosome 16. In hemoglobin H disease, three of these four α-globin genes are affected by a deletion ...