Interchromosomal crossover in human cells is associated with long gene conversion tracts

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5261-5274

  Neuwirth, Efrem A H ^a   Honma, Masamitsu ^b   Grosovsky, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; I SCEI NUCLEASE; THYMIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOBLAST; BASE PAIRING; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MODELS, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547194269     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01852-06     Document Type: Article

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