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Detecting sequence polymorphisms associated with meiotic recombination hotspots in the human genome.
Genome biology - 1 Jan 2010
Zheng Jie, Khil Pavel P, Camerini-Otero R Daniel, Przytycka Teresa M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Meiotic recombination events tend to cluster into narrow spans of a few kilobases long, called recombination hotspots. Such hotspots are not conserved between human and chimpanzee and vary between different human ethnic groups. At the same time, recombination hotspots are heritable. Previous studies showed instances where differences in recombination rate could be associated with sequence...
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