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Evolution of the DAZ gene family suggests that Y-linked DAZ plays little, or a limited, role in spermatogenesis but underlines a recent African origin for human populations.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 1998
Agulnik A I, Zharkikh A, Boettger-Tong H, Bourgeron T, McElreavey K, Bishop C E
Abstract excerpt
The recent transposition to the Y chromosome of the autosomal DAZL1 gene, potentially involved in germ cell development, created a unique opportunity to study the rate of Y chromosome evolution and assess the selective forces that may act upon such genes, and provided a new estimate of the male-to-female mutation rate (alpham). Two different Y-located DAZ sequences were observed in all Old World monkeys, apes and...
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