Patterns of Inter-Chromosomal Gene Conversion on the Male-Specific Region of the Human Y Chromosome

The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome (MSY) is characterized by the lack of meiotic recombination and it has long been considered an evolutionary independent region of the human genome. In recent years, however, the idea that human MSY did not have an independent evolutionary history be...

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Main Authors: Beniamino Trombetta, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Fulvio Cruciani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2017.00054/full