UNC study rewrites textbook on key genetic phenomenon
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 19:42
in Biology & Nature
Because females carry two copies of the X chromosome to males' one X and one Y, they harbour a potentially toxic double dose of the over 1000 genes that reside on the X chromosome...
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