Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promoters

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1327-1338

  Choi, Kyuha ^a   Zhao, Xiaohui ^a   Kelly, Krystyna A ^a   Venn, Oliver ^b   Higgins, James D ^c   Yelina, Nataliya E ^a   Hardcastle, Thomas J ^a   Ziolkowski, Piotr A ^a,d   Copenhaver, Gregory P ^e,f   Franklin, F Chris H ^c   Mcvean, Gil ^b   Henderson, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H3; RAD51 PROTEIN; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA METHYLATION; HISTONES; MEIOSIS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; POLLEN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84887106752     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2766     Document Type: Article

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