Genome-wide variation in recombination in female meiosis: A risk factor for non-disjunction of chromosome 21

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 515-523

  Brown, Amanda Savage ^a   Feingold, Eleanor ^b   Broman, Karl W ^c   Sherman, Stephanie L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 21; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

EID: 0343384391     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.4.515     Document Type: Article

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