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Male reproductive function and the human Y chromosome: is selection acting on the Y?
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Jan 2000
McElreavey Ken, Quintana-Murci Lluís
Abstract excerpt
The human Y chromosome encodes genes that are essential for male sex determination, spermatogenesis and protection against Turner stigmata. In recent years mutations have been identified in Y-chromosome genes associated with these phenotypes and a series of microdeletions of the long arm of the Y...
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