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How and why ampliconic genes survive on the human Y chromosome
Karol Pal, Aleksandra Greshnova, Sukhwan Park…·Kateryna D. Makova
The paper investigates how multicopy gene families on the human Y chromosome survive despite lack of recombination, showing that homogenization via palindromes and arrays, along with purifying selection, preserve protein structure essential for fertility.
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