AMES, Iowa – A new study led by an Iowa State University scientist sheds light on how organisms have evolved to address imbalances in sex chromosomes. The study looks at a species of softshell turtle, ...

Autism has a significant and enduring sex bias, with roughly four boys diagnosed for every girl. For many years, experts have ...

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Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in every cell of the body. People with ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers performed a meta-analysis of 908,697 samples to investigate the genetic, sex-dependent basis of kidney traits. Study: ...

Researchers have discovered new insights into how one of the two X-chromosomes is silenced during the development of female human embryos and also in lab-grown stem cells. X-chromosome silencing is ...

A gene thought to keep a single X chromosome turned on in mice plays no such role in humans, Johns Hopkins researchers report in the August issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. The finding ...