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Related: About this forumScientists 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 didnt even know if it could be sequenced, it was so puzzling, Cechova added. This is really a huge shift in whats 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.
Blues Heron
(6,097 posts)They missed this chromosome?
cyclonefence
(4,872 posts)gun-love and mass murders. IMO.
wnylib
(24,223 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)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.
tom_kelly
(1,050 posts)wnylib
(24,223 posts)I do not think of myself in such negative terms as being deficient in Y. I consider myself fully sufficient in X.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)cyclonefence
(4,872 posts)paleotn
(19,062 posts)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.
cyclonefence
(4,872 posts)shoot up schools and synagogues?
wnylib
(24,223 posts)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)their votes and the policies that they promote - more guns, less vaccines, no masks, no emergency abortions.
paleotn
(19,062 posts)Female homicidal incidents seem to be more targeted and less random.
Higherarky
(637 posts)An X chromosome is complete.
Kevlar donned. Fire away.
Delphinus
(12,125 posts)Irish_Dem
(55,991 posts)Men have only one X.
And that pesky Y which keeps getting them in trouble.
LiberalArkie
(16,384 posts)chia
(2,360 posts)cyclonefence
(4,872 posts)Irish_Dem
(55,991 posts)birdographer
(2,527 posts)wnylib
(24,223 posts)JT45242
(2,845 posts)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.