Crossover frequency and synaptonemal complex length: Their variability and effects on human male meiosis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-133

  Codina Pascual, Montserrat ^a   Campillo, M ^a   Kraus, J ^b,c   Speicher, M R ^b,c   Egozcue, J ^a   Navarro, J ^a   Benet, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Human crossover maps; Meiosis; stM FISH; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL ASSAY; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGENETICS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERM; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 33645514471     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gal007     Document Type: Article

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