The Rate of Nonallelic Homologous Recombination in Males Is Highly Variable, Correlated between Monozygotic Twins and Independent of Age

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  MacArthur, Jacqueline A L ^a   Spector, Timothy D ^b   Lindsay, Sarah J ^a   Mangino, Massimo ^b   Gill, Raj ^b   Small, Kerrin S ^b   Hurles, Matthew E ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONALLELIC HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRDM9 GENE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPERM; UNITED KINGDOM; ALLELE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; INDEL MUTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERMATOZOA; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84897400595     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004195     Document Type: Article

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