August 23, 2023
      
                  
        
  Author(s)
  Arang  Rhie,   Sergey  Nurk,   Monika  Cechova,   Savannah  Hoyt,   Dylan  Taylor,   Nathanael David  Olson,   Justin  Zook,   Adam  Phillippy
 
       
            
    
    
        The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and segmental duplications1,2,3. As a result, more than half of the Y chromosome is