Duplicate, decouple, disperse: the evolutionary transience of human centromeric regions.

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Human centromeric regions are enriched for segmental duplications, which elsewhere in the genome precipitate both genetic disease and gene formation. Molecular cytogenetic analyses of primate chromosomes have established that centromeres frequently move without altering the surrounding gene order. Recently, the positions of two ancestral centromeres have been mapped to regions of the human genome that are both...

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