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. 2025 Jun 24;122(25):e2511505122.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2511505122. Epub 2025 Jun 16.

Heightened interest in the human X and Y chromosomes

Ann Marie Lawson  1 , Jacob L Mueller  1
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Heightened interest in the human X and Y chromosomes

Ann Marie Lawson et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Increased PAR1 (denoted in green) correlates with increased human height. Human silhouette adapted from Phylopic/Katy Lawler (https://www.phylopic.org/images/036b96de-4bca-408e-adb6-2154fcd724ef/homo-sapiens-sapiens), which is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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