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Summary Of: Y chromosome
The human Y chromosome is composed of about 60 million... Males have one Y chromosome and one X chromosome... the Y chromosome contains the gene that triggers embryonic development as a male... the Y chromosome changed in such a way as to inhibit the areas around the sex determining genes... of the human Y chromosome is unable to recombine... the human Y chromosome itself contains only 86 working genes... They found that human Y chromosome is able to... play a role in the ability of the Y chromosome to edit out genetic mistakes and maintain the integrity of the relatively few genes it... were confirmed by comparing similar regions of the Y chromosome in humans to the Y chromosomes of... the Y chromosome spans 58 million... Traits that are inherited via the Y chromosome are called holandric traits... The human Y chromosome is unable to recombine with the X chromosome... The bulk of the Y chromosome which does not recombine is called the... human disease linked to a defect on the Y chromosome is defective testicular development... presence of a single extra copy of the Y chromosome in each of a male... have found that an extra copy of the Y chromosome is associated with increased stature and an increased incidence of learning problems in some boys... so that for a while an extra Y chromosome was believed to predispose a boy to antisocial behavior... having more than one extra copy of the Y chromosome in every cell... portion of the Y chromosome to move to the X chromosome... use of the information contained in the Y chromosome is of particular interest since... the Y chromosome is passed exclusively from father to son... the Y chromosome does not trigger male development... Y chromosome does contain genes necessary for male fertility... Y chromosome Short Tandem Repeat... specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes... About the use of mtDNA and Y chromosome analysis in ancestry testing... Encyclodia Page On: Y chromosome
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