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chromosome

[kroh-muh-sohm] / ˈkroʊ məˌsoʊm /


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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

The project focuses on tracking the Y chromosome, which passes largely unchanged through generations of males.

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

Prader-Willi syndrome stems from the loss of function of specific genes on the paternal copy of chromosome 15.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

Let us return to linkage: Morgan’s experiments had established that genes that were physically linked to each other on the same chromosome were inherited together.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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