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Evolution of the pseudoautosomal boundary in Old World monkeys and great apes.
Cell - 30 Nov 1990
Ellis N, Yen P, Neiswanger K, Shapiro L J, Goodfellow P N
Abstract excerpt
Mammalian sex chromosomes are divided into sex-specific and pseudoautosomal regions. Sequences in the pseudoautosomal region recombine between the sex chromosomes; the sex-specific sequences normally do not. The interface between sex-specific and pseudoautosomal sequences is the pseudoautosomal boundary. The boundary is the centromeric limit to recombination in the pseudoautosomal region. In man, an Alu repeat...
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