Talk:Sex chromosome

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Request to add to the sex determination section of this article[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mehnazt/sandbox

Above is a link to my sandbox. My draft for the sex determination section is there. Let me know what you guys think. I'm thinking of adding information about plants/intersex people as well. --Mehnazt (talk) 00:08, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps a statement about etymology would be helpful? The Greek language has two words meaning different: hetero and allo. As I recall from Greek class 30 years ago, (sorry I'm not looking this up right now): allo, different but of the same kind; hetero, different of different kinds. Bob Enyart, Denver radio host at KGOV (talk) 14:16, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am username sachipatel and I am improving this page for a biology project under the supervision of Mr. Bohrer at Waynesville High School. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sachipatel (talk • contribs) 14:01, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 5 March 2018[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 06:28, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Allosome → Sex chromosome – Outdated, allosome hardly registers on ngrams and completely outnumbered in searches, also sex chromosome used in infobox Iztwoz (talk) 07:55, 5 March 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. Dekimasuよ! 17:34, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). -- Alex^TW 08:58, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support, common and most familiar name. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
support. So much more familiar, as illustrated by the opening line of Autosome ("An autosome is a chromosome that is not an allosome (a sex chromosome).") --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:35, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Polycomb Repressive Complex 2?[edit]

@Chaya5260: Your addition on "The deactivated X-chromosome" and "Polycomb Repressive Complex 2" sounds interesting but could use a citation. Can you provide such? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 05:16, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reminding me of this oversight on X chromosome. I have now added a citation to X-chromosome^[1]. I believe I had added a citation to PRC2 itself. The citation was ^[2]

References

^ Brockdorff N (November 2017). "Polycomb complexes in X chromosome inactivation". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 372 (1733). doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0021. PMC 5627167. PMID 28947664.
^ Veneti Z, Gkouskou KK, Eliopoulos AG (July 2017). "Polycomb Repressor Complex 2 in Genomic Instability and Cancer". Int J Mol Sci. 18 (8). doi:10.3390/ijms18081657. PMC 5578047. PMID 28758948.)

Thank you for the response.

QUESTION: I now see Brockdorff but not Veneti in the References.

Should the Brockdorff reference be advanced one sentence and Veneti be added where Brockdorff currently is?

I'm asking. I very much appreciate you contributions. I don't know enough to feel confident in doing anything with this. Thanks again. DavidMCEddy (talk) 02:22, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong topic[edit]

The title of the article suggests this should be about sex chromosomes in general, but most of the article exclusively talks about the XY system, even though a separate article on that topic already exists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 00:42, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Irrelevant sections[edit]

The sections 2.1 Previous theories on sex determination and 2.2 Sex determination as understood today both seem to be primarily about X-inactivation, and are only peripherally relevant to this article. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 01:48, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[pmid28947664-1] Brockdorff N (November 2017). "Polycomb complexes in X chromosome inactivation". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 372 (1733). doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0021. PMC 5627167. PMID 28947664.

[2] Veneti Z, Gkouskou KK, Eliopoulos AG (July 2017). "Polycomb Repressor Complex 2 in Genomic Instability and Cancer". Int J Mol Sci. 18 (8). doi:10.3390/ijms18081657. PMC 5578047. PMID 28758948.)

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