Human subtelomeres are hot spots of interchromosomal recombination and segmental duplication

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7055, 2005, Pages 94-100

  Linardopoulou, Elena V ^a,b   Williams, Eleanor M ^a   Fan, Yuxin ^a,d   Friedman, Cynthia ^a   Young, Janet M ^a   Trask, Barbara J ^a,b,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; PATHOLOGY;

DNA REPAIR; HUMAN BIOLOGY; HUMAN SUBTELOMERES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA REPAIR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIMATES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 24344442909     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04029     Document Type: Article

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