Y-chromosome

• “The Y-chromosome in males does not contain the same genesthat are carried on the X-chromosome.”

  X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome

• “If a man with X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (and hence an SH2D1A alteration) has children with a female partner who does not carry an alteration in SH2D1A, he will either pass on a Y-chromosome to his sons (who will therefore be unaffected by the syndrome) or he will pass the X-chromosome with the SH2D1A alteration to his daughters (who will be X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome carriers).”

  X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome

• “This is because he does not have an extra normal copy of SH2D1A on his Y-chromosome to compensate by making normal SAP protein.”

  X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome

• “Females have two X-chromosomes, whereas males have one X-chromosome and one Y-chromosome.”

  X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome

• “A male child will always receive an X-chromosome from his mother and a Y-chromosome from his father.”

  X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome

• “So, seeing as I'm a person with a Y-chromosome, I thought I'd see if I've read many or any of the books on the list.”

  What's On My Blogroll This Week?

• “Additionally in 2008, ISOGG encouraged and facilitated the development of Y-chromosome nomenclature standards for Short Tandem Repeats or STRs by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, and their subsequent adoption by the ancestral DNA companies and labs.”

  The Huffington Post: Megan Smolenyak: Don't "Protect" Us from Our Own Genetic Information

• “In the other Y-chromosome apartment, Mondo is not having an easy time making friends.”

  The Huffington Post: Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 2 Recap: Size Matters

• “Nine months later, he was contacted independently by two men with Y-chromosome profiles almost identical to his own—and the same surname.”

  Simon & Schuster: The $1,000 Genome

• “This absence of female genetic material makes Y-DNA testing a natural choice for genealogists, because the nature of most human surnames follows the same inheritance pattern as Y-chromosome markers.”

  Simon & Schuster: Shaking the Family Tree

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