A new method for detecting human recombination hotspots and its applications to the HapMap ENCODE data

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 628-639

  Li, Jun ^a   Zhang, Michael Q ^a,b   Zhang, Xuegong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENOMIC DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; RECOMBINATION HOTSPOT; RESTRICTION SITE; SPERM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; YEAST;

EID: 33748988999     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508066     Document Type: Article

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