A common sequence motif associated with recombination hot spots and genome instability in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1124-1129

  Myers, Simon ^a,b   Freeman, Colin ^b   Auton, Adam ^b,c   Donnelly, Peter ^b,d   McVean, Gil ^b  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 50449088155     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.213     Document Type: Article

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