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The human Y chromosome is the first constitutively haploid metazoan chromosome to be sequenced. It has a unique genomic landscape with a complex evolutionary history that has endowed it with few genes but many nearly identical dispersed repeats that underlie the structural fluidity of this unusual chromosome.

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Figure 1: Sequence organization of the human Y chromosome.

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  1. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK

    Matthew E Hurles

  2. Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    Mark A Jobling

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Hurles, M., Jobling, M. A singular chromosome. Nat Genet 34, 246–247 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0703-246

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