Meiotic recombination in mammals: Localization and regulation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 794-806

  Baudat, Frédéric ^a   Imai, Yukiko ^a   De Massy, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; POSITIVE REGULATORY DOMAIN CONTAINING 9; RING FINGER PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOTENE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SISTER CHROMATID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ZYGOTENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; GENES, REGULATOR; GENOME; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS;

EID: 84886035850     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3573     Document Type: Review

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