The human Y chromosome: An evolutionary marker comes of age

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 598-612

  Jobling, Mark A ^a   Tyler Smith, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANTHROPOLOGY; AZOOSPERMIA; BALANCING SELECTION; BIFURCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOGAMY; EUCHROMATIN; EVOLUTION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT SELECTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOGROUP; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HOMOLOGY; HOMOPLASY; HUMAN; MALE SPECIFIC Y CHROMOSOME; MARRIAGE; MULTIFURCATION; NONRECOMBINAINT PORTION Y CHROMOSOME; NONRECOMBINING Y CHROMOSOME; PARAGROUP; PARALOGUE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICS; XX MALE; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0042766533     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1124     Document Type: Review

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