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Y Chromosome

"Y Chromosome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The male sex chromosome, being the differential sex chromosome carried by half the male gametes and none of the female gametes in humans and in some other male-heterogametic species in which the homologue of the X chromosome has been retained.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Y Chromosome" by people in this website by year, and whether "Y Chromosome" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 21 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 1997
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