The organization and evolution of the human Y chromosome.
The recent sequencing of a large chunk of euchromatin from the human Y chromosome is a technical tour de force. It answers some evolutionary questions about this unusual chromosome while raising others.
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Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh EH9 2BR, UK. Brian.Charlesworth@ed.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D002503:Centromere / Q000235:genetics; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans