The role of gene conversion in preserving rearrangement hotspots in the human genome

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 561-568

  Fawcett, Jeffrey A ^a   Innan, Hideki ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copy number variant; Gene conversion; Non allelic homologous recombination; Rearrangement hotspot; Segmental duplication

Indexed keywords

COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LIFESPAN; NON ALLELIC HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION;

PRIMATES;

COPY NUMBER VARIANT; GENE CONVERSION; NON-ALLELIC HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; REARRANGEMENT HOTSPOT; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, HUMAN; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84884417635     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2013.07.002     Document Type: Review

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