Imprinted Chromosomal Regions of the Human Genome Have Unusually High Recombination Rates

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1629-1632

  Lercher, Martin J ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; POLYTHYMIDYLIC ACID;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 11P; CPG ISLAND; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; LETTER; MEIOSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBTELOMERIC LOCATION; TELOMERE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0347622761     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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