Repeat instability at human minisatellites arising from meiotic recombination

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 4147-4157

  J jeffreys, Alec ^a   L neil, David ^a   Neumann, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversion; Meiosis; Minisatellite; Mutation; Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; DNA MINISATELLITE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0032528264     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.14.4147     Document Type: Article

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