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The Disappearing Y Chromosome

By Sarah Zhang – The Atlantic 12/06/2019

“… Now a new study—the largest yet of this phenomenon—estimates that 20 percent of 205,011 men in a large genetic database called the UK Biobank have lost Y chromosomes from some detectable proportion of their blood. …”

Read the entire article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/men-lose-y-chromosomes-cells-they-age/603013/