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Table 3 Sex-typing strategies applicable to hominids. Overview of several primate species closely related to humans. Humans and chimpanzees share the same indel confirmed by available sequence information. The rhAMP strategy is applicable in humans and western gorillas for the given SNP

From: Novel human sex-typing strategies based on the autism candidate gene NLGN4X and its male-specific gametologue NLGN4Y

 

PCR genotyping (predicted amplicon size)

rhAMP-genotyping (base at SNP_C position)

Species

NLGN4X

NLGN4Y

NLGN4X

NLGN4Y

Homo sapiens

381 bp

187 bp

G

A

Gorilla gorilla (western gorilla)

381 bp

n/a

G

A

Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee)

381 bp

187 bp

G

C

Pan paniscus (pygmy chimpanzee)

381 bp

n/a

G

n/a

Pongo abelii (Sumatran orangutan)

377 bp

n/a

G

n/a