Recombination Dynamics of a Human Y-Chromosomal Palindrome: Rapid GC-Biased Gene Conversion, Multi-kilobase Conversion Tracts, and Rare Inversions

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Hallast, Pille ^a,b   Balaresque, Patricia ^a,c   Bowden, Georgina R ^a,d   Ballereau, Stéphane ^a   Jobling, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c Illumina Inc   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CROSSING OVER; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PALINDROME; PARALOGOUS SEQUENCE VARIANT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84880791646     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003666     Document Type: Article

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