Eighty percent of patients with autoimmune diseases are female. These diseases are one of the top 10 leading causes of death for women under 65, and cases are increasing annually worldwide. There is ...

Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An X-linked gene called ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago.

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

A new study published in Nature Genetics by the Lymphoid Development Group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences has reveals that the contribution of cells expressing maternal or paternal X ...

Micrographic images of human X and Y chromosomes. Source: Jonathan Bailey, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health/Flickr Inside most of your cells, you probably have ...

In a surprise, work in mice has found that the dormant X chromosome in females can reawaken late in life and turn on genes that keep the brain healthy. UCSF researchers may have discovered how the ...