Mutations at the human minisatellite MS32 integrated in yeast occur with high frequency in meiosis and involve complex recombination events

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-17

  Appelgren, H ^a   Cederberg, H ^a   Rannug, U ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genomic instability; Meiosis minisatellite; Recombination; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; DNA MINISATELLITE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

ALLELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MITOSIS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 2442449445     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050540     Document Type: Article

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