Polymorphism for a 1.6-Mb deletion of the human Y chromosome persists through balance between recurrent mutation and haploid selection

Nature Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-251

  Repping, Sjoerd ^a,b   Skaletsky, Helen ^a   Brown, Laura ^a   Van Daalen, Saskia K M ^b   Korver, Cindy M ^b   Pyntikova, Tatyana ^a   Kuroda Kawaguchi, Tomoko ^a,c   De Vries, Jan W A ^b   Oates, Robert D ^d   Silber, Sherman ^e   Van der Veen, Fulco ^b   Page, David C ^a   Rozen, Steve ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; AZFC REGION; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GR GR DELETION; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HAPLOIDY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0242298320     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1250     Document Type: Article

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