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The gene encoding the granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor α subunit (CSF2RA) has previously been mapped to the pseudoautosomal region of the human sex chromosomes. In contrast, we report that the murine locus, Csf2ra, maps to an autosome in the laboratory mouse. By in situ hybridization and genetic mapping, Csf2ra maps at telomeric band D2 of mouse chromosome 19. This first instance of a pseudoautosomal locus in human being autosomal in mouse, indicates incomplete conservation between the human and mouse X chromosomes and suggests that the genetic content of the pseudoautosomal region may differ between species of eutherian mammals due to chromosomal rearrangements.
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Disteche, C., Brannan, C., Larsen, A. et al. The human pseudoautosomal GM–CSF receptor α subunit gene is autosomal in mouse. Nat Genet 1, 333–336 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0892-333
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