Article
A chromosomal rearrangement hotspot can be identified from population genetic variation and is coincident with a hotspot for allelic recombination.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 2006
Lindsay Sarah J, Khajavi Mehrdad, Lupski James R, Hurles Matthew E
Abstract excerpt
Insights into the origins of structural variation and the mutational mechanisms underlying genomic disorders would be greatly improved by a genomewide map of hotspots of nonallelic homologous recombination (NAHR). Moreover, our understanding of sequence variation within the duplicated sequences that are substrates for NAHR lags far behind that of sequence variation within the single-copy portion of the genome....
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
- Chromosomes, Human
- Databases, Genetic
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Conversion
- Gene Duplication
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genetic Variation
