Conventional investigations of the genetic contributors to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk and progression have ignored the role of the X-chromosome, primarily due to technical analysis limitations. To ...

Increased risk for autism appears to be linked to the Y chromosome, a Geisinger Health System study has found, offering a new explanation for the greater prevalence of autism in males. The results are ...

A study from Karolinska Institutet shows that genetic testing can identify germline predisposition underlying childhood ...

A study of nearly 40,000 cancer patients found that age-based germline genetic testing policies would miss about 72 percent of carriers of inherited pathogenic variants, supporting universal testing ...

Dormant genes on the X chromosome may reawaken in old age, potentially giving the aging female brain a boost that the male brain doesn't receive. This phenomenon may help to explain why, on many ...

In men, that trace may be a missing Y chromosome in cells that still look perfectly normal, new research shows. That was the ...

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: ...

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has ...