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Repeated sequence specific to human males

Nature volume 262, pages 182–186 (1976)Cite this article

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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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