Multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of mosaic loss of chromosome Y in the Million Veteran Program identifies 167 novel loci

M Francis, BR Gorman, TB Bigdeli, G Genovese… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (mLOY) is a common somatic mutation in leukocytes of older
males. mLOY was detected in 126,108 participants of the Million Veteran Program: 106,054 …

Genomic and phenotypic correlates of mosaic loss of chromosome Y in blood

YA Jakubek, X Ma, AM Stilp, F Yu, J Bacon, JW Wong… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Mosaic loss of Y (mLOY) is the most common somatic chromosomal alteration detected in
human blood. The presence of mLOY is associated with altered blood cell counts and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 …