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Polymorphic variation in human meiotic recombination.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2007
Cheung Vivian G, Burdick Joshua T, Hirschmann Deborah, Morley Michael
Abstract excerpt
In this study, our phenotype of interest is meiotic recombination. Using genotypes of approximately 6,000 SNP markers in members of the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain Utah pedigrees, we found extensive individual variation in the number of female and male recombination events. The locations and frequencies of these recombination events vary along the genome. In both female and male meiosis, the regions...
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