Article
Sequence variants in the RNF212 gene associate with genome-wide recombination rate.
deCODE Genetics Inc, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland.
Science (impact factor:
31.2).
04/2008;
319(5868):1398-401.
DOI:10.1126/science.1152422
pp.1398-401
Source: PubMed
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Keywords
4p16.3 region correlated
average recombination rate
chiasma formation
elusive
females
genome-wide recombination rate varies
haplotype
haplotype changes
highest recombination rate
low recombination rate
males
putative ortholog
recombination rate
sequence variants
sex-averaged recombination rate
single-nucleotide polymorphisms
variants
ZHP-3 gene
