Meiotic recombination hot spots and cold spots

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 360-369

  Petes, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EUKARYOTA;

HISTONE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSSING OVER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROGNOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0035345013     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35072078     Document Type: Review

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