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Towards a complete sequence of the human Y chromosome
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* Corresponding author: Doris Bachtrog Doris.Bachtrog@ed.ac.uk
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Genome Biology 2001, 2:reviews1016-reviews1016.5 doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-5-reviews1016
Published: 26 April 2001Abstract
A few dozen genes are known on the human Y chromosome. The completion of the human genome sequence will allow identification of the remaining loci, which should shed further light on the function and evolution of this peculiar chromosome.