Recombination hot spots and human disease

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 773-786

  Purandare, Smita M ^a   Patel, Pragna I ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; REPETITIVE DNA; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CHROMOSOME DELETION; MEIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0030929515     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.8.773     Document Type: Review

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