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Hedi Hegyi

Brno
Computational biologist, PI at CEITEC, the Central-European MIT. My musings on science. Main res focus is schizophrenia & noncoding genome.
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Y chromosome-coded HSATII repeats may contribute to higher incidence of cancer in men

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By Hedi Hegyi, Matej Lexa
| biorxiv.org
Abstract It has been observed that men have a shorter lifespan and higher incidence of certain cancers than women. We postulate here that this phenomenon may be attributed to the toxicity of the Y chromosome, owing to the expression of normally silent HSATII repeats in cancer, abundantly present on chromosome Y.
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