Some articles on chromosome, paternal, paternal chromosome, chromosomes:
... by the loss of active genes in a specific part of chromosome 15, the 15q11-q13 region ... People normally have two copies of this chromosome in each cell, one copy from each parent ... Prader-Willi syndrome occurs when the paternal copy is partly or entirely missing ...
... one allele of a gene is expressed from either the maternal or the paternal chromosome ... In general, imprinted genes are clustered together on chromosomes, suggesting the imprinting mechanism acts upon local chromosome domains rather than individual genes ... suggesting that Kcnqot1 is crucial to the imprinting of genes on the paternal chromosome (Mancini-Dinardo 2006) ...
... Africa 85% 28% Europe 2.5% 39% Native Brazilian 12.5% 33% Paternal (Y chromosome) Sub-Saharan Africa 48% 2% Europe 50% 98% Native Brazilian 1.6% 0 ... The other is the Y chromosome, that is present only in males and passed down with only minor mutations through the paternal line ... they are only a fraction of the human genome, and reading ancestry from Y chromosome and mtDNA only tells 1/23rd the story, since humans have 23 chromosome pairs ...
Famous quotes containing the words chromosome and/or paternal:
“We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the help of other men—we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday’s washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest—a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)