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Common and low-frequency variants associated with genome-wide recombination rate.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 2014
Kong Augustine, Thorleifsson Gudmar, Frigge Michael L, Masson Gisli, Gudbjartsson Daniel F, Villemoes Rasmus, Magnusdottir Erna, Olafsdottir Stefania B, Thorsteinsdottir Unnur, Stefansson Kari
Abstract excerpt
Meiotic recombination contributes to genetic diversity by yielding new combinations of alleles. Individuals vary with respect to the genome-wide recombination counts in their gametes. Exploiting data resources in Iceland, we compiled a data set consisting of 35,927 distinct parents and 71,929 parent-offspring pairs. Within this data set, we called over 2.2 million recombination events and imputed variants with...
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