[HTML][HTML] Evidence of sex differences in cellular senescence

M Ng, LN Hazrati - Neurobiology of Aging, 2022 - Elsevier
Biological sex is a factor in many conditions, including aging, neurodegenerative disease,
cancer, and more. For each of these, men and women display distinct differences in disease …

Mosaicism and clinical genetics

NB Spinner, LK Conlin - … Journal of Medical Genetics Part C …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
With the introduction of increasingly sensitive technologies for mutation detection such as
chromosomal microarrays and next‐generation sequencing, the importance of mosaicism …

Mosaic loss of chromosome Y is associated with common variation near TCL1A

W Zhou, MJ Machiela, ND Freedman, N Rothman… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (mLOY) leading to gonosomal XY/XO commonly occurs
during aging, particularly in smokers. We investigated whether mLOY was associated with …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Female chromosome X mosaicism is age-related and preferentially affects the inactivated X chromosome

MJ Machiela, W Zhou, E Karlins, JN Sampson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To investigate large structural clonal mosaicism of chromosome X, we analysed the SNP
microarray intensity data of 38,303 women from cancer genome-wide association studies …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of large structural genetic mosaicism in human autosomes

MJ Machiela, W Zhou, JN Sampson, MC Dean… - The American Journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Analyses of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data have revealed that detectable
genetic mosaicism involving large (> 2 Mb) structural autosomal alterations occurs in a …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

iPSCs and fibroblast subclones from the same fibroblast population contain comparable levels of sequence variations

EM Kwon, JP Connelly, NF Hansen… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Genome integrity of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has been extensively studied in
recent years, but it is still unclear whether iPSCs contain more genomic variations than …

[HTML][HTML] Incident disease associations with mosaic chromosomal alterations on autosomes, X and Y chromosomes: insights from a phenome-wide association study in …

SH Lin, DW Brown, B Rose, F Day, OW Lee, SM Khan… - Cell & bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Background Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are large chromosomal gains, losses
and copy-neutral losses of heterozygosity (LOH) in peripheral leukocytes. While many …