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eppur_se_muova

(37,343 posts)
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 07:15 AM Sep 2023

Scientists have finally decoded mysteries of the Y chromosome. Here's why it matters (CNN)

By Katie Hunt, CNN
Updated 4:17 PM EDT, Fri August 25, 2023


CNN —

Scientists have fully sequenced the Y chromosome for the first time, uncovering information that could have implications for the study of male infertility and other health problems.
Neanderthals differ in DNA from what scientists call "modern humans" by less than 1%.

Scientists sequence the complete human genome for the first time

The first attempt to determine the building blocks of our genetic code took place 20 years ago, but there were still significant gaps left in the sequences of all 23 pairs of human chromosomes. Those blanks were largely filled in last year by an international group of 100 scientists called the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium.

However, over half of the sequences within the Y chromosome, the smallest and most complicated of the 46 human chromosomes, remained unknown. Now, the same group of researchers has filled in the missing information, publishing a complete Y chromosome sequence Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“Just a few years ago, half of the human Y chromosome was missing (from the reference),” said Monika Cechova, co-lead author on the paper and postdoctoral scholar in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a statement.

“Back then we didn’t even know if it could be sequenced, it was so puzzling,” Cechova added. “This is really a huge shift in what’s possible.”
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more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/world/y-chromosome-fully-sequenced-scn/index.html




It turns out the Y chromosome is linked to a lot more than just gender determination. Interesting reading.

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Scientists have finally decoded mysteries of the Y chromosome. Here's why it matters (CNN) (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Sep 2023 OP
werent we told they had sequenced the entire human genome years ago? Blues Heron Sep 2023 #1
The Y chromosome is behind cyclonefence Sep 2023 #2
Bang Bang Boebert and Empty G have a Y chromosome? wnylib Sep 2023 #3
Nothing else makes sense! Alexander Of Assyria Sep 2023 #4
Maybe cyclonefence Sep 2023 #8
Steroids can cause aggression tom_kelly Sep 2023 #11
Say what? I do not have a Y chromosome. wnylib Sep 2023 #19
Y would you say such a thing? ;) Chainfire Sep 2023 #12
Just trying to Xpress myself cyclonefence Sep 2023 #13
That's a bit of a broad stroke, don't you think? paleotn Sep 2023 #15
Yeah, but do those crazy women cyclonefence Sep 2023 #17
They support, defend, and encourage those who do. wnylib Sep 2023 #20
They commit mass murder through wnylib Sep 2023 #22
Good point. paleotn Sep 2023 #24
A Y chromosome is missing an entire leg of evolution. Higherarky Sep 2023 #5
Took me a moment ... Delphinus Sep 2023 #6
And women have TWO of them. An X and a spare. Irish_Dem Sep 2023 #7
I think the X has to do with map reading LiberalArkie Sep 2023 #9
haha I think you're on to something there... chia Sep 2023 #14
Or where we keep the mustard cyclonefence Sep 2023 #18
And where any lost object in the home is located. Irish_Dem Sep 2023 #23
This all certainly does explain some stuff... birdographer Sep 2023 #10
LOL. See my #19. wnylib Sep 2023 #21
Why run up the score that badly .... JT45242 Sep 2023 #16

cyclonefence

(4,872 posts)
8. Maybe
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 09:11 AM
Sep 2023

I'd say yes to Marge* (or maybe it's just all that cross-training; I think BooBoo aspires to be one of the boys. That's two.

How many school/house of worship massacres have been carried out by Y-deficient humanoids?


* Is she dressing according to the sex assigned her at birth? That's what people want to know.

wnylib

(24,223 posts)
19. Say what? I do not have a Y chromosome.
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 10:34 AM
Sep 2023

I do not think of myself in such negative terms as being deficient in Y. I consider myself fully sufficient in X.

paleotn

(19,062 posts)
15. That's a bit of a broad stroke, don't you think?
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 10:01 AM
Sep 2023

And doesn't explain women for Trump or female conservatives in general, something I still can't quite wrap my head around. It's like some kind of mass Stockholm Syndrome.

wnylib

(24,223 posts)
20. They support, defend, and encourage those who do.
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 10:46 AM
Sep 2023

Besides, there are ways of committing mass murder without guns. Have you never heard of women in the nursing field who intentionally kill several patients with medicines?

My main point is that women are just as capable of hatred, violence, and murder as men. There are both genetic and social conditioning factors in both men and women that influence how they express aggression toward others.

wnylib

(24,223 posts)
22. They commit mass murder through
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 10:49 AM
Sep 2023

their votes and the policies that they promote - more guns, less vaccines, no masks, no emergency abortions.

Irish_Dem

(55,991 posts)
7. And women have TWO of them. An X and a spare.
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 09:01 AM
Sep 2023

Men have only one X.

And that pesky Y which keeps getting them in trouble.

JT45242

(2,845 posts)
16. Why run up the score that badly ....
Sun Sep 3, 2023, 10:04 AM
Sep 2023

Even after pulling the starting QB they kept throwing the ball...left in starting wideouts for a while.

Just because you gave the of there school money to be a sacrificial lamb, does not mean you need to keep running up the score.

Just another reason to hate these guys.

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