Strict evolutionary conservation followed rapid gene loss on human and rhesus Y chromosomes

Strict evolutionary conservation followed rapid gene loss on human and rhesus Y chromosomes

The human X and Y chromosomes evolved from an ordinary pair of autosomes during the past 200–300 million years[superscript 1, 2, 3]. The human MSY (male-specific region of Y chromosome) retains only three percent of the ancestral autosomes’ genes owing to genetic decay[superscript 4, 5]. This evolut...

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Main Authors: Hughes, Jennifer F., Skaletsky, Helen, Brown, Laura G., Pyntikova, Tatyana, Graves, Tina, Fulton, Robert S., Dugan, Shannon, Ding, Yan, Buhay, Christian J., Kremitzki, Colin, Wang, Qiaoyan, Shen, Hua, Holder, Michael, Villasana, Donna, Nazareth, Lynne V., Cree, Andrew, Courtney, Laura, Veizer, Joelle, Kotkiewicz, Holland, Cho, Ting-Jan, Koutseva, Natalia, Rozen, Steve, Muzny, Donna M., Warren2, Wesley C., Gibbs, Richard A., Wilson, Richard K., Page, David C
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74259
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-3411

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74259
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