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Prostate cancer susceptibility and growth linked to Y chromosome genes.
Frontiers in bioscience (Elite edition) - 1 Mar 2018
Patel Riddhi, Khalifa Ahmad O, Isali Ilaha, Shukla Sanjeev
Abstract excerpt
The role of Y chromosome in prostate cancer progression and incidence is not well known. Among the 46 chromosomes, Y chromosome determines the male gender. The Y chromosome is smaller than the X chromosome and contains only 458 genes compared to over 2000 genes found in the X chromosome. The Y chromosome is prone to high mutation rates, created exclusively in sperm cells due to the highly oxidative environment of...
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