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Y: waving, not drowning
Email: Cathy Holding - cholding@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030618-03
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The human Y chromosome contains 60 million base pairs (Mb) of DNA, it is haploid, and 95% of it is nonrecombining. Helen Skaletsky from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and colleagues report in the first of two papers in the June 19 Nature that the 23Mb euchromatic region in the Y chromosome comprises eight massive palindromic sequences and that these regions are rich in genes that are functional and testis-specific (Nature, 423:825-837, June 19, 2003).
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