The black and orange patches that define the coloring of a calico cat beautifully illustrate the genetic mechanism known as "dosage compensation" through X chromosome inactivation. Shutterstock Image ...

What are the genes implicated in upright walking of humans ... "In families A and D there were mutations in VLDLR on chromosome 9, and in family B the phenotype maps to chromosome 17 to a region ...

Nature 423:825–837 Its fate had been decided. After millions of years of loyal service to masculinity, the Y chromosome was doomed to a slow, yet certain extinction. Its swan song was SRY ...

DBH and D9S10 map 1 and 2 cM distal to ABO, respectively, and were linked by chromosome walking, covering a physical distance of 150 kb (contig C). This indicates that the genetic versus physical ...