Origins of chromosomal rearrangement hotspots in the human genome: evidence from the AZFadeletion hotspots

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Hurles, Matthew E ^a,b   Willey, David ^b   Matthews, Lucy ^b   Hussain, Syed Sufyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Concerted Evolution; Gene Conversion; Phylogenetic Network; Segmental Duplication

Indexed keywords

AZF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GORILLA; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 8444223551     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-8-r55     Document Type: Article

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