An artistic depiction of a chromosome that is missing some of its "lights," representing rare diseases where people are ...

People who have one of several well-documented medical conditions do not have only XX or XY chromosomes, which typically correspond with female and male sexes, respectively. Those conditions include ...

An artistic depiction of a chromosome that is missing some of its "lights," representing rare diseases where people are missing relatively large portions of their genome from one parent.

Scientists have made an exciting discovery about octopuses: they have one of the oldest known sex chromosomes in the animal ...

They discovered it on chromosome number 17, and it only stood out to researchers when they compared the male octopus genome that had been fully sequenced to a female one. The female octopus seemed to ...

(Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) Turner syndrome happens when a female is missing certain genes normally on the X chromosome. (Females have two X chromosomes, while males have an X and a Y chromosome).

Gene editing techniques may one day allow for the removal of the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome, early ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco found that female mice expressing only a maternal X chromosome experience faster brain aging and cognitive decline compared to those expressing both maternal and ...

This category consisted of either triploid or tetraploid specimens that had any number of additional or missing chromosomes. These results are discussed below along with the multisomy karyotypes.

The results appear February 12 online in the journal Cell Genomics. An artistic representation of a human chromosome wrapped in lights with one large segment turned off, representing a class of ...