The y chromosome: A blueprint for men's health?

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1181-1188

  Maan, Akhlaq A ^a   Eales, James ^a   Akbarov, Artur ^a   Rowland, Joshua ^a   Xu, Xiaoguang ^a   Jobling, Mark A ^b   Charchar, Fadi J ^c   Tomaszewski, MacIej ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^d MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT; UBIQUITOUSLY TRANSCRIBED TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT CONTAINING Y LINKED GENE; UPREGULATION; VIRUS INFECTION; Y CHROMOSOME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNITY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; MALE;

EID: 85031291097     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2017.128     Document Type: Review

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