Erik Owen

Jun 11, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Daniel W Bellott |Jennifer Hughes |Helen Skaletsky |Erik Owen

AbstractA 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?