Y chromosome

Especially when you add to it that leadership in the state Legislature has gone all Y-chromosome.

What Dr Mazanec was looking for was a match with the DNA from the Y-chromosome, which is passed through the male line, from son to son.

The swap didn’t banish the Y chromosome from the recipients, but it culled the chromosome from 49% to 81% of white blood cells—about the same percentage as in many humans with Y-chromosome loss.

“The strength of Lambda Literary, and the L.G.B.T.Q. movement at large, was in convincing people to look beyond the cover, read beyond the title, even if that title includes the words ‘Y-chromosome’ — we asked them to read the book,” she said.

Moore had been a keen hobbyist in traditional genealogy and in early consumer genomics, which had allowed the tracking of direct male lines through the Y-chromosome and of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA.