PRDM9 variation strongly influences recombination hot-spot activity and meiotic instability in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 859-863

  Berg, Ingrid L ^a   Neumann, Rita ^a   Lam, Kwan Wood G ^a   Sarbajna, Shriparna ^a   Odenthal Hesse, Linda ^a   May, Celia A ^a   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PRDM9 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM DONOR; SPERMATOZOON; TANDEM REPEAT; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA;

MUS;

EID: 77957579303     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.658     Document Type: Article

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