Estimating the number of double-strand breaks formed during meiosis from partial observation

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1277-1283

  Toyoizumi, Hiroshi ^a,b   Tsubouchi, Hideo ^c  

^a Waseda University   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Double strand breaks; Nelson Aalen estimator; nonhomogeneous Poisson process; record value process southern blotting

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84870725165     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2012.0209     Document Type: Article

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