Meiotic recombination hot spots and human DNA diversity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1441, 2004, Pages 141-152

  Jeffreys, Alec J ^a   Holloway, J Kim ^a   Kauppi, Liisa ^a   May, Celia A ^a   Neumann, Rita ^a   Slingsby, M Timothy ^a   Webb, Adam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversion; Crossover; Haplotype; Hot spot; Linkage disequilibrium; Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENOME; RECOMBINATION;

EID: 1642565811     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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