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The human Y chromosome: rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
Cell - 27 Jun 2003
Hawley R Scott
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Recent papers by David Page and his collaborators present an intriguing new face to the human Y chromosome, including eight massive palindromic arrays, most of which contain multi-copy pairs of testis-specific genes. Sequence pairs within the arms of these palindromic sequences retain a high degree of similarity, suggesting that intrachromosomal gene conversion is frequent, perhaps providing a means of...
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