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Novel (CA)n marker DXYS241 on the nonrecombinant part of the human Y chromosome.
Human biology - 1 Apr 1999
Kotliarova S E, Toda T, Takenaka O, Matsushita I, Hida A, Shinka T, Goto J, Tokunaga K, Nakagome Y, Nakahori Y
Abstract excerpt
The origin of modern humans can be traced by comparing polymorphic sites in either mitochondria or genomic sequences between humans and other primates. The human Y chromosome has both a non-recombining region and X-Y homologous pseudo-autosomal regions. In the nonrecombining region events during evolution can be directly detected. At least a part of homology between Xq21 and Yp11 is a result of rather recent...
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