1). The sex chromosomes started out as a pair of ordinary autosomes. Once the Y chromosome was elected to accumulate factors contributing to male fitness, a series of events was initiated which ...

All other chromosomes = autosomes close autosomesChromosomes that control the characteristics of an organism but do not determine its sex. Recessive traits may skip generations and will affect ...

O'Neill and colleagues from the Chromatin and Gene Expression Group at the University of Birmingham Medical School report that both X chromosomes are epigenetically marked in female cells, while the ...

Patil, Consultant in Medical Genetics and Personalised Medicine at Aster Whitefield Hospital, Bengaluru, explains that humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes: 22 autosomes and one pair of sex ...

Most of these ‘imprinted’ genes reside on the autosomes (non-sex chromosomes) and are therefore expressed at the same level between the sexes. However, this is not the case for imprinted genes ...