Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood

DJ Thompson, G Genovese, J Halvardson, JC Ulirsch… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in leukocytes matters

LA Forsberg, J Halvardson, E Rychlicka-Buniowska… - Nature Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
To the Editor—Recent studies have found associations between loss of chromosome Y
(LOY) in leukocytes and an increased risk for all-cause mortality1 as well as various …

Genetic variants associated with mosaic Y chromosome loss highlight cell cycle genes and overlap with cancer susceptibility

DJ Wright, FR Day, ND Kerrison, F Zink, A Cardona… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The Y chromosome is frequently lost in hematopoietic cells, which represents the most
common somatic alteration in men. However, the mechanisms that regulate mosaic loss of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood—two sides of the same coin?

V Ljungström, J Mattisson, J Halvardson, T Pandzic… - Leukemia, 2022 - nature.com
Studies in recent years have revealed that increasing age is associated with the
accumulation of post-zygotic genetic aberrations in different cell lineages even in the …

Assembly of 43 human Y chromosomes reveals extensive complexity and variation

P Hallast, P Ebert, M Loftus, F Yilmaz, PA Audano… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The prevalence of highly repetitive sequences within the human Y chromosome has
prevented its complete assembly to date and led to its systematic omission from genomic …

Polymorphism for a 1.6-Mb deletion of the human Y chromosome persists through balance between recurrent mutation and haploid selection

S Repping, H Skaletsky, L Brown, SKM van Daalen… - Nature …, 2003 - nature.com
Many human Y-chromosomal deletions are thought to severely impair reproductive fitness,
which precludes their transmission to the next generation and thus ensures their rarity in the …

[HTML][HTML] GIGYF1 loss of function is associated with clonal mosaicism and adverse metabolic health

Y Zhao, S Stankovic, M Koprulu, E Wheeler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in leukocytes is the most common form of clonal
mosaicism, caused by dysregulation in cell-cycle and DNA damage response pathways …

Mosaic Y loss is moderately associated with solid tumor risk

E Loftfield, W Zhou, M Yeager, SJ Chanock… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY) in peripheral leukocytes is a somatic event in
which a fraction of leukocytes have lost the entire Y chromosome. The frequency of mLOY …