Non-crossover gene conversions show strong GC bias and unexpected clustering in humans

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Williams, Amy L ^a,a,b,g   Genovese, Giulio ^b   Dyer, Thomas ^c   Altemose, Nicolas ^d   Truax, Katherine ^c   Jun, Goo ^e   Patterson, Nick ^b   Myers, Simon R ^d   Curran, Joanne E ^c   Duggirala, Ravi ^c   Blangero, John ^c   Reich, David ^b,f   Przeworski, Molly ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRDM9 GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERM TYPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSSING OVER; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE;

MAMMALIA;

ALLELES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84984923609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04637     Document Type: Article

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