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Restriction enzyme analysis and nucleic acid hybridisation show that there is a repeated sequence in human male DNA which is not present in human female DNA. This sequence is shown to constitute about 50% of the DNA in the Y chromosome and is a simple tandemly repeated DNA.
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Cooke, H. Repeated sequence specific to human males. Nature 262, 182–186 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262182a0
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