Cytological studies of human meiosis: Sex-specific differences in recombination originate at, or prior to, establishment of double-strand breaks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Gruhn, Jennifer R ^a   Rubio, Carmen ^b   Broman, Karl W ^c   Hunt, Patricia A ^a   Hassold, Terry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Unit   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN SYCP1; PROTEIN SYCP3; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANEUPLOIDY; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84893194272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085075     Document Type: Article

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