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chromosome

[kroh-muh-sohm] / ˈkroʊ məˌsoʊm /


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Genetic tests can show your risk of Alzheimer’s disease, while other tests measure your telomeres—that’s the tip of the chromosome, whose length indicates biological age.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

During his first appointment in Seattle, my parents learned that their seven-year-old’s illness was accompanied by the Philadelphia chromosome.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Because this chromosome is passed from father to son with little change, the findings confirm a continuous male lineage within the Da Vinci family dating back at least 15 generations.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

They also generally have a more active immune response, partly due to genetic factors like the X chromosome.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

The thread began on a day two hundred and fifty years ago, when the biology gods, for their own amusement, monkeyed with a gene on a baby’s fifth chromosome.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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