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Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content

The human Y chromosome began to evolve from an autosome hundreds of millions of years ago, acquiring a sex-determining function and undergoing a series of inversions that suppressed crossing over with the X chromosome(1,2). Little is known about the Y chromosome’s recent evolution because only the h...

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Autores principales: Hughes, Jennifer F., Skaletsky, Helen, Pyntikova, Tatyana, Graves, Tina A., van Daalen, Saskia K. M., Minx, Patrick J., Fulton, Robert S., McGrath, Sean D., Locke, Devin P., Friedman, Cynthia, Trask, Barbara J., Mardis, Elaine R., Warren, Wesley C., Repping, Sjoerd, Rozen, Steve, Wilson, Richard K., Page, David C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20072128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08700