The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes.

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Published in Nature on June 19, 2003

Authors

Helen Skaletsky1, Tomoko Kuroda-Kawaguchi, Patrick J Minx, Holland S Cordum, LaDeana Hillier, Laura G Brown, Sjoerd Repping, Tatyana Pyntikova, Johar Ali, Tamberlyn Bieri, Asif Chinwalla, Andrew Delehaunty, Kim Delehaunty, Hui Du, Ginger Fewell, Lucinda Fulton, Robert Fulton, Tina Graves, Shun-Fang Hou, Philip Latrielle, Shawn Leonard, Elaine Mardis, Rachel Maupin, John McPherson, Tracie Miner, William Nash, Christine Nguyen, Philip Ozersky, Kymberlie Pepin, Susan Rock, Tracy Rohlfing, Kelsi Scott, Brian Schultz, Cindy Strong, Aye Tin-Wollam, Shiaw-Pyng Yang, Robert H Waterston, Richard K Wilson, Steve Rozen, David C Page

Author Affiliations

1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.

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