Article
Alu repeats increase local recombination rates.
BMC genomics - 16 Nov 2009
Witherspoon David J, Watkins W Scott, Zhang Yuhua, Xing Jinchuan, Tolpinrud Whitney L, Hedges Dale J, Batzer Mark A, Jorde Lynn B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recombination rates vary widely across the human genome, but little of that variation is correlated with known DNA sequence features. The genome contains more than one million Alu mobile element insertions, and these insertions have been implicated in non-homologous recombination, mod...
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