GWASTools (version 1.12.2)

pseudoautosomal: Pseudoautosomal region base positions

Description

Pseudoautosomal region (XTR, PAR1, PAR2) base positions for the X and Y chromsosomes from the GRCh36/hg18 and GRCh37/hg19 genome builds.

Usage

pseudoautosomal.hg18
pseudoautosomal.hg19

Format

A data.frame with the following columns.

chrom

chromosome (X or Y)

2

region

region (XTR, PAR1, or PAR2)

start.base

starting base position of region

end.base

ending base position of region

Source

UCSC genome browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu).

Details

The XTR region on X is defined as DXS1217 to DXS3. The XTR region on Y is defined as SY20 to DXYS1.

References

Ross, Mark. T. et al. (2005), The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome. Nature, 434: 325-337. doi:10.1038/nature03440

Mumm, S., Molini, B., Terrell, J., Srivastava, A., and Schlessinger, D. (1997), Evolutionary features of the 4-Mb Xq21.3 XY homology region revealed by a map at 60-kb resolution. Genome Res. 7: 307-314.

Examples

data(pseudoautosomal.hg18)
data(pseudoautosomal.hg19)