From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 21:32:02 MDT
Interesting piece in the latest New Scientist on decoding Y, not yet
available on-line. I found it on a site where I can't work out how to save
the damned thing, but the Nature paper is vol 423, pp 825, 873.
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/ychromosome/
The most interesting thing (to me, in my ignorance) isn't just that there
are some 78 genes, more than expected, but that many are mirrored and
multiply-redundant, with amazing gene conversion repair capacity.
The Science Daily article is here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030619081229.htm
(Thanks to Robert Bradbury for some urls.)
Damien Broderick
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