Height is one of the most evident sex-based differences observed in humans, as men are on an average 13 cm (5 inches) taller ...

A recent study examining genetic information from almost one million individuals has helped explain why men tend to be taller ...

"These results are consistent with the hypothesis that elevated SHOX expression on the Y chromosome relative to the Xi ...

If the extra chromosome is a Y, the baby gets an XYY pattern ... and numbered from one to 22 (the “Denver classification”). X and Y are usually placed at the end.

(Arrow indicates extra chromosome.) Figure 3 ... The acrocentric chromosomes are 13, 14, 24, 15, 21, and 22. In a balanced structural chromosomal anomaly the amount of chromosomal material ...

Why are men, on average, taller than women? A massive new genetic study reveals how a single gene may account for a slice of ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UC Davis, and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal ...

A gene called SHOX may explain why men are typically taller than women. The study used genetic data from nearly 1 million ...

In three cases of r(18) (cases 22, 24 and 25) array CGH identified two distal deletions ... these cases with mosaicism for a metacentric extra chromosome turned out to be examples of mosaic tetrasomy ...

i recently had a miscarriage, i was 8 weeks preg but the fetus stopped growing at 6 weeks. we found out recently that it was due to mosaicism chromosome 22. i have a son from my previous marriage who ...

While these data strongly support the presence of a novel tumor suppressor locus (or loci) on chromosome 22, LOH mapping is correlative in nature and works on the assumption that any observation ...

I married a tall woman out of love, partly from genetic ambition. I figured we’d gift our kids a vertical advantage. It turns ...