Researchers mapped Y chromosome loss across thousands of individual cells from human cancers, with disturbing results.

Scientists are expressing concerns about male reproductive health due to the Y chromosome's genetic material loss, potentially disappearing in 11 million years. A study revealed a sharp decline in ...

“Hormones and DNA are two powerful factors that can push a gene into being switch-like,” Aqil says. “Typically, lots of small ...

Lately, it seems everywhere we look there’s a new story about DNA discoveries. From long-lost siblings to adoptees, DNA ...

Two of the people—one a possible member of the ruling dynasty, and the other a victim of human sacrifice—belonged to the same Y-chromosome haplogroup. A haplogroup is a population that has the same ...

That genetic traces of the original population disappear completely is unusual, especially in South America,” said geneticist Andrea Casas-Vargas of Colombia’s National University in a recent ...

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 ...

but just 14% to 27% of the DNA sequences on the human Y chromosome are shared with our closest living relatives. The finding surprised scientists, given that humans and chimpanzees diverged just 7 ...

For many years, the human Y chromosome was terra incognita. Scientists completed the genetic sequences of other chromosomes, the threadlike structures that hold an organism’s DNA. But more than ...

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 ...