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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2024

Where is the boundary of the human pseudoautosomal region?

Daniel W Bellott, Jennifer F Hughes, Helen Skaletsky, Erik C Owen, David C Page

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Daniel W BellottWhitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Jennifer F HughesWhitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Helen SkaletskyWhitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Erik C OwenWhitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
David C PageWhitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: dcpage@wi.mit.edu.

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Graduate Training in Computational and Systems BiologyT32GM087237 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2009 to 2023
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NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM087237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A recent publication describing the assembly of the Y chromosomes of 43 males was remarkable not only for its ambitious technical scope but also for the startling suggestion that the boundary of the pseudoautosomal region 1 (PAR1), where the human X and Y chromosomes engage in crossing-over during male meiosis, lies 500 kb distal to its previously reported location. Where is the boundary of the human PAR1? We first review the evidence that mapped the PAR boundary, or PAB, before the human genome draft sequence was produced, then examine post-genomic datasets for evidence of crossing-over between the X and Y, and lastly re-examine contiguous sequence assemblies of the PAR-NPY boundary to see whether they support a more distal PAB. We find ample evidence of X-Y crossovers throughout the 500 kb in question, some as close as 246 bp to the previously reported PAB. Our new analyses, combined with previous studies over the past 40 years, provide overwhelming evidence to support the original position and narrow the probable location of the PAB to a 201-bp window.

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Chromosomes, Human, YGenome, HumanPseudoautosomal RegionsChromosome MappingChromosomes, Human, XCrossing Over, GeneticHumansMaleMeiosiscomparative genomicscrossing overpolymorphismpseudoautosomal regionrecombinationsex chromosomessingle-sperm typingtelomere-to-telomereX chromosomeY chromosome

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PMID39406244
PMCPMC11568759

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