DeCS

Descriptor English:

Y Chromosome

Descriptor Spanish:

Cromosoma Y

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	cromosoma Y
Scope note:	Es el cromosoma sexual masculino que contienen la mitad de los gametos masculinos y ninguno de los gametos femeninos en los humanos y en algunas otras especies heterogaméticas masculinas que han retenido el homólogo del cromosoma X.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Cromossomo Y

Descriptor French:

Chromosome Y

Tree number(s):

A11.284.187.865.983
G05.360.162.865.983

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014998

Scope note:

The male sex chromosome, being the differential sex chromosome carried by half the male gametes and none of the female gametes in humans and in some other male-heterogametic species in which the homologue of the X chromosome has been retained.

Annotation:

abnormalities; coordinate IM with SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS (IM) or specific disease (IM) + SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS (NIM); Y CHROMOSOME, HUMAN is also available

Allowable Qualifiers:

CH composition chimique
CL classification
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
EN enzymologie
GE génétique
IM immunologie
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie

DeCS ID:

15397

Unique ID:

D014998

NLM Classification:

QU 470

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

1984/01/01

Date of Entry:

1977/04/29