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Frequent gene conversion events between the X and Y homologous chromosomal regions in primates

BACKGROUND: Mammalian sex-chromosomes originated from a pair of autosomes. A step-wise cessation of recombination is necessary for the proper maintenance of sex-determination and, consequently, generates a four strata structure on the X chromosome. Each stratum shows a specific per-site nucleotide s...

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Autores principales: Iwase, Mineyo, Satta, Yoko, Hirai, Hirohisa, Hirai, Yuriko, Takahata, Naoyuki
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20650009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-225