Where the crossovers are: Recombination distributions in mammals

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 413-424

  Kauppi, Liisa ^a,b   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a   Keeney, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CROSSING OVER; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YEAST; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENES, MHC CLASS II; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 3042742130     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1346     Document Type: Review

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