A polygenic risk score predicts mosaic loss of chromosome Y in circulating blood cells

M Riaz, J Mattisson, G Polekhina, A Bakshi… - Cell & Bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Background Mosaic loss of Y chromosome (LOY) is the most common somatic change that
occurs in circulating white blood cells of older men. LOY in leukocytes is associated with …

Longitudinal changes in the frequency of mosaic chromosome Y loss in peripheral blood cells of aging men varies profoundly between individuals

M Danielsson, J Halvardson, H Davies… - European Journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) is the most common somatic genetic aberration and is
associated with increased risk for all-cause mortality, various forms of cancer and …

Loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in blood cells is associated with increased risk for disease and mortality in aging men

LA Forsberg - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Recent discoveries have shown that harboring cells without the Y chromosome in the
peripheral blood is associated with increased risk for all-cause mortality and disease such …

GWAS of mosaic loss of chromosome Y highlights genetic effects on blood cell differentiation

C Terao, Y Momozawa, K Ishigaki, E Kawakami… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (mLOY) is frequently observed in the leukocytes of ageing
men. However, the genetic architecture and biological mechanisms underlying mLOY are …

Mosaic chromosome Y loss is associated with alterations in blood cell counts in UK Biobank men

SH Lin, E Loftfield, JN Sampson, W Zhou, M Yeager… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of Y chromosome (mLOY) is the most frequently detected somatic copy number
alteration in leukocytes of men. In this study, we investigate blood cell counts as a potential …

[HTML][HTML] Mosaic loss of Y chromosome and the association to mortality in Danish men aged 56–100 years

DM Hozakowska-Roszkowska, J Mengel-From… - Mechanisms of Ageing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY) is a common somatic mutation in the blood of
elderly men and several studies have found mLOY in blood cells to be associated with an …

Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood is associated with genomic instability in other tissues and susceptibility to non-haematological cancers

DJ Thompson, G Genovese, J Halvardson, JC Ulirsch… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common
form of clonal mosaicism, yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic alterations in patients with somatic loss of the Y chromosome as the sole cytogenetic finding in bone marrow cells

MM Ouseph, RP Hasserjian, P Dal Cin, SB Lovitch… - …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Loss of the Y chromosome (LOY) is one of the most common somatic genomic alterations in
hematopoietic cells in men. However, due to the high prevalence of LOY as the sole …

Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in peripheral blood is associated with shorter survival and higher risk of cancer

LA Forsberg, C Rasi, N Malmqvist, H Davies… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Incidence and mortality for sex-unspecific cancers are higher among men, a fact that is
largely unexplained,. Furthermore, age-related loss of chromosome Y (LOY) is frequent in …

Predictors of mosaic chromosome Y loss and associations with mortality in the UK Biobank

E Loftfield, W Zhou, BI Graubard, M Yeager… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY) is the most commonly reported large structural
somatic event. Previous studies have indicated age and cigarette smoking increase the risk …