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title: "4.14.5 Y chromosome (2024)"
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In the same way as mtDNA could be used to identify maternal lineages in the populations, Y chromosomes sequences provide similar information on paternal lineages. There, recombination is restricted to a small area of the chromosome, because the Y chromosome is much smaller than the paired X chromosome.