Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

A high-resolution map of non-crossover events reveals impacts of genetic diversity on mammalian meiotic recombination

  • Ran Li,
  • Emmanuelle Bitoun,
  • Nicolas Altemose,
  • Robert W. Davies,
  • Benjamin Davies,
  • Simon R. Myers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11675-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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During meiotic recombination, genetic information is transferred or exchanged between parental chromosome copies. Using a large hybrid mouse pedigree, the authors generated high-resolution maps of these transfer/exchange events and discovered new properties governing their processing and resolution.