Evidence for a fast, intrachromosomal conversion mechanism from mapping of nucleotide variants within a homogeneous α-satellite DNA array

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1815-1826

  Schindelhauer, Dirk ^a,b   Schwarz, Tobias ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; SATELLITE DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE P1 ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CROSSING OVER; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA RESTRICTION; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SAMPLE; TANDEM REPEAT; TURNOVER TIME; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, P1 BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA, SATELLITE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GORILLA GORILLA; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036911492     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.451502     Document Type: Review

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