The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6942, 2003, Pages 825-837

  Skaletsky, Helen ^a   Kuroda Kawaguchl, Tomoko ^a   Minx, Patrick J ^b   Cordum, Holland S ^b   Hlllier, LaDeana ^b   Brown, Laura G ^a   Repplng, Sjoerd ^c   Pyntikova, Tatyana ^a   All, Johar ^b   Blerl, Tamberlyn ^b   Chinwalla, Asif ^b   Delehaunty, Andrew ^b   Du, Hui ^b   Fewell, Glnger ^b   Fulton, Lucinda ^b   Fulton, Robert ^b   Graves, Tina ^b   Hou, Shun Fang ^b   Latrielle, Phllip ^b   Leonard, Shawn ^b   Mardis, Elaine ^b   Maupin, Rachel ^b   McPherson, John ^b   Miner, Tracie ^b   Nash, Wllliam ^b   Nguyen, Christine ^b   Ozersky, Philip ^b   Pepin, Kymberlle ^b   Rock, Susan ^b   Rohlfing, Tracy ^b   Scott, Kelsi ^b   Schultz, Brian ^b   Strong, Cindy ^b   Tin Wollam, Aye ^b   Yang, Shlaw Pyng ^b   Waterston, Robert H ^b   Wllson, Richard K ^b   Rozen, Steve ^a   Page, David C ^a   more..

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA SEQUENCES; PROTEINS;

GENE TRANSCRIPTION;

GENE TRANSFER;

CHROMOSOME; GENE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; EUCHROMATIN; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUCHROMATIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENES; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 0037967242     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01722     Document Type: Article

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