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From: Frequent gene conversion events between the X and Y homologous chromosomal regions in primates

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Gene arrangement and comparison of the p -distances between primate KALX and KALY. The centromeric boundaries of the low p-distance region in humans (top), chimpanzees (middle), and rhesus monkeys (bottom) are shown. When a part of the KALY sequence was deleted, the region is shown in gray. These p-distances (y-axis) were computed in non-overlapping windows of 500-bp each. Repetitive elements detected using Repeat masker and NCBI Map Viewer are indicated (square, triangle, and circle) under each p-distance graph. Small numbers on the diagram indicate the position of exons (white rectangles). A bracket in the rhesus monkey diagram indicates an inversion. Regions A and B used for phylogenetic analysis are marked by two-headed arrows.

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