Absence of the TAP2 Human Recombination Hotspot in Chimpanzees

Recent experiments using sperm typing have demonstrated that, in several regions of the human genome, recombination does not occur uniformly but instead is concentrated in “hotspots” of 1–2 kb. Moreover, the crossover asymmetry observed in a subset of these has led to the suggestion that hotspots ma...

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Main Authors: Ptak, Susan E, Roeder, Amy D, Stephens, Matthew, Gilad, Yoav, Pääbo, Svante, Przeworski, Molly
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2004
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC423135/