Recombination regulator PRDM9 influences the instability of its own coding sequence in humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 600-605

  Jeffreys, Alec J ^a   Cotton, Victoria E ^a   Neumann, Rita ^a   Lam, Kwan Wood Gabriel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Conversion; Drive; Minisatellite; Polarity; Sperm

Indexed keywords

HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PR DOMAIN CONTAINING 9 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM LINE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE, UNSTABLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION RATE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZINC FINGERS;

MUS;

EID: 84872190707     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220813110     Document Type: Article

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