The vast majority of cancer cells have too few or too many copies of some chromosomes, a state known as aneuploidy. But for decades, researchers have debated whether aneuploidy promotes the growth of ...
New research shows that the male X chromosome is silenced in some types of cancer. Researchers evaluated how a certain gene affects the male X chromosome in cancer cells. Experts explain why these new ...
A new study has found that the X chromosome, of which one copy is typically inactivated in XX female cells, can also be inactivated in some male cancers. The study is published in Cell Systems. The X ...
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Researchers find evidence that it may be genes on the X chromosome that cause the height difference between men and women
Finally, differences in height are being explained.
"Inter-chromosome connections may prove to be an integral and pervasive governing feature of chromosome organization in many types of human cells," says Stowers Investigator Jennifer Gerton, Ph.D., ...
Down syndrome is a genetic condition in which someone is born with an extra full or partial copy of the 21st chromosome, says Mary Pipan, MD, a behavioral pediatrician and the director of the Trisomy ...
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