Maternal origin of the human aneuploidies. Are homolog synapsis and recombination to blame? Notes (learned) from the underbelly

Genome Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 128-136

  Garcia Cruz, R ^a   Roig, I ^b   Caldés, M Garcia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; MLH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; OOCYTE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MOTHER;

MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOTHERS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 58149190442     PISSN: 16609263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000166638     Document Type: Review

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