Variation in human meiotic recombination

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 317-349

  Lynn, Audrey ^a   Ashley, Terry ^b   Hassold, Terry ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossing over; Exchange; Meiosis; Nondisjunction

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE; CROSSING OVER; CYTOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE; TRISOMY;

AGE FACTORS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 5444246038     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.4.070802.110217     Document Type: Review

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