Comparative recombination rates in the rat, mouse, and human genomes

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 528-538

  Jensen Seaman, Michael I ^a   Furey, Terrence S ^b   Payseur, Bret A ^d   Lu, Yontao ^b   Roskin, Krishna M ^b   Chen, Chu Fu ^a   Thomas, Michael A ^e   Haussler, David ^b,c   Jacob, Howard J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MOUSE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, OBESE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED SHR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1842717957     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1970304     Document Type: Review

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