Article
Sequence variation of the human Y chromosome.
Nature - 23 Nov 1995
Whitfield L S, Sulston J E, Goodfellow P N
Abstract excerpt
We have generated over 100 kilobases of sequence from the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosomes from five humans and one common chimpanzee. The human subjects were chosen to match the earliest branches of the human mitochondrial tree. The survey of 18.3 kilobases from each human detected only three sites at which substitutions were present, whereas the human and chimpanzee sequences showed 1.3% divergence....
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- Animals
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Male
- Pan troglodytes
- Y Chromosome