Stephanie Byrum

March 30, 2016

UAMS Researchers Help Uncover Possible Sex Determinant in Mammals

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Alan Tackett UAMS

March 30, 2016 | A group of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) helped discover a new molecular “earmark” on DNA that may determine the sex of all mammals. The sex of human and all mammalian babies may be determined by a simple earmarking of an ancient virus that inserted itself…