Conservation of hotspots for recombination in low-copy repeats associated with the NF1 microdeletion

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1419-1423

  Raedt, Thomas De ^a   Stephens, Matthew ^b   Heyns, Ine ^a   Brems, Hilde ^a   Thijs, Daisy ^a   Messiaen, Ludwine ^c   Stephens, Karen ^b   Lazaro, Conxi ^d   Wimmer, Katharina ^e   Kehrer Sawatzki, Hildegard ^f   Vidaud, Dominique ^g   Kluwe, Lan ^h   Marynen, Peter ^a   Legius, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 19; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LOW COPY REPEAT; NF1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REP19 GENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION;

PAN;

EID: 33751523300     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1920     Document Type: Article

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