Dynamic nature of the proximal AZFc region of the human Y chromosome: multiple independent deletion and duplication events revealed by microsatellite analysis.

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Published in Hum Mutat on October 01, 2008

Authors

Patricia Balaresque1, Georgina R Bowden, Emma J Parkin, Ghada A Omran, Evelyne Heyer, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Lutz Roewer, Mark Stoneking, Ivan Nasidze, Denise R Carvalho-Silva, Chris Tyler-Smith, Peter de Knijff, Mark A Jobling

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.

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