Alu repeats increase local recombination rates

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Witherspoon, David J ^a   Watkins, W Scott ^a   Zhang, Yuhua ^a   Xing, Jinchuan ^a   Tolpinrud, Whitney L ^b   Hedges, Dale J ^c   Batzer, Mark A ^d   Jorde, Lynn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RETROPOSON; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALU SEQUENCE; CHILD; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RACE; TIME;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 71549123707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-530     Document Type: Article

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