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Segmental polymorphisms in the proterminal regions of a subset of human chromosomes.
Genome research - 1 Nov 2002
Der-Sarkissian Hera, Vergnaud Gilles, Borde Yves-Marie, Thomas Gilles, Londoño-Vallejo José-Arturo
Abstract excerpt
The subtelomeric domains of chromosomes are probably the most rapidly evolving structures of the human genome. The highly variable distribution of large duplicated subtelomeric segments has indicated that frequent exchanges between nonhomologous chromosomes may have been taking place during recent genome evolution. We have studied the extent and variability of such duplications using in situ hybridization...
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