Variation in recombination rate across the genome: Evidence and implications

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 657-663

  Nachman, Michael W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CROSS LINKING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SPERM; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036889393     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(02)00358-1     Document Type: Review

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