A non-hypervariable human minisatellite strongly stimulates in vitro intramolecular homologous recombination

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 499-505

  Boán, Francisco ^a   Rodríguez, José Manuel ^a   Gómez Márquez, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Equal crossover; Homologous recombination; Human repetitive DNA; In vitro recombination assay; Non hypervariable minisatellite

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032496384     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1714     Document Type: Editorial

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