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Recombination has little effect on the rate of sequence divergence in pseudoautosomal boundary 1 among humans and great apes.
Genome research - 1 Jan 2004
Yi Soojin, Summers Tyrone J, Pearson Nathaniel M, Li Wen-Hsiung
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies indicated that recombination is strongly mutagenic. In particular, data from the mouse pseudoautosomal boundary (PAB) suggested that locally intensive recombination increased the nucleotide substitution rate by more than 100-fold and greatly increased the GC content. Here we study the rates of nucleotide substitution in eight introns of the human and great ape XG gene, which spans the boundary...
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