Meiotic recombination hotspots: shaping the genome and insights into hypervariable minisatellite DNA change.

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Published in Curr Top Dev Biol on January 01, 1998

Authors

W P Wahls1

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1: Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0146, USA.

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