Abundant gene conversion between arms of palindromes in human and ape Y chromosomes

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6942, 2003, Pages 873-876

  Rozen, Steve ^a   Skaletsky, Helen ^a   Marszalek, Janet D ^a   Minx, Patrick J ^b   Cordum, Holland S ^b   Waterston, Robert H ^b   Wilson, Richard K ^b   Page, David C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

PALINDROMES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

PALINDROMIC DNA;

CHROMOSOME; GENE;

APE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; EUCHROMATIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0037967231     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01723     Document Type: Article

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